After generations of education, too, there arise varieties of culture--there will be an upper thousand, or ten thousand, of highly cultivated people in the midst of a great nation of moderately educated people.
Bagehot discusses the emergence of cultural diversity and education levels within a nation over generations.
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These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.
The casual line was traced according to the strength of deceased combatants; succeeding generations fought elsewhere; and the hesitating line of a half-drawn battle was left to stand for a perpetual limit.
Political philosophy is still more imperfect; it has been framed from observations taken upon regular specimens of politics and States; as to these its teaching is most valuable.
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