Walter Bagehot: “He might use it by unaccountable impulse when not required, and refuse to use it out of sullen madness when required.”

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

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

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

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.