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The actual contact with affairs is indeed likely to purify him from many prejudices, to tame him of many fanaticisms, to beat out of him many errors.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot reflects on how direct engagement in politics can lead to a clearer understanding and reduction of biases.
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No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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