Walter Bagehot: “It is as great a difficulty to learn business in a palace as it is to learn agriculture in a park.”

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.