Walter Bagehot: “They look as if they had paused when there was no reason for…”

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They look as if they had paused when there was no reason for pausing--when a mere observer from without would say they were likely not to pause.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot suggests that these civilizations appear to have halted their progress without justification.

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It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

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Walter Bagehot: “They look as if they had paused when there was no reason for pausing--when a mere observer from without would say they…”