Walter Bagehot: “The rise of industrial wealth in countless forms has brought in a competitor which has generally more mind, and which…”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

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

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.