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These sinister agencies are likely to be most effective just when everything else is troubled, and when, therefore, they are particularly dangerous.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot warns that dangerous influences are most potent during times of political turmoil.
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He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
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