Walter Bagehot: “If we look at the earliest monuments of the human race, we find these race-characters as decided as the race-characters…”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.