Walter Bagehot: “But what makes one tribe--one incipient tribe, one bit of a tribe--to…”

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But what makes one tribe--one incipient tribe, one bit of a tribe--to differ from another is their relative faculty of coherence.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot discusses the factors that differentiate one tribe from another, focusing on their coherence.

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