Walter Bagehot: “It has not been sufficiently remarked that a change has taken place in the structure of our society exactly analogous to…”

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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