It is incredible that whole races could lose the elements of common sense, the elementary knowledge as to things material and things mental--the Benjamin Franklin philosophy--if they had ever known it.
Bagehot contends that it is implausible for races to lose fundamental knowledge if they had ever possessed it.
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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.
The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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