Walter Bagehot: “The House of Lords, besides independence to revise judicially and position to revise effectually, has leisure to revise…”

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

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

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.