Walter Bagehot: “Civilisation is robust enough to bear the incision of legal improvements.”

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

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

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.