Walter Bagehot: “Unless we are content to solve simple problems first, the whole history of philosophy teaches that we shall never solve…”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

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.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.