There is no naturalness in uniting the two; the end of it always is, that you put a man at the head of society who very likely is remarkable for social defects, and is not eminent for social merits.
Bagehot critiques the unnatural merging of social leadership with political authority, often leading to flawed leaders.
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All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
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