Walter Bagehot: “All which may be called 'grace' as well as virtue it does not nourish; humanity, charity, a nice sense of the rights of…”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.