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At this very moment there are the most rigid Comtists teaching that we ought to be governed by a hierarchy--a combination of savans orthodox in science.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot critiques the rigid governance proposed by Comtists, emphasizing the dangers of a scientific hierarchy.
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We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
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.
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