Walter Bagehot: “The traditional strength of the hereditary monarch is at these times of incalculable use.”

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.