Walter Bagehot: “With this great faculty of finding truth, he was a believer in…”

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With this great faculty of finding truth, he was a believer in error--in what his own party now admit to be error--all his life through.

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Walter Bagehot

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This statement reflects Bagehot's view on the contradiction between Lord Lyndhurst's intellectual abilities and his persistent belief in errors.

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