Walter Bagehot: “And if we can get them ruled by a decent capable thought, we may be well enough contented with our work.”

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

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.

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.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.