Walter Bagehot: “What he hears from his friends, what he reads in the party organ…”

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What he hears from his friends, what he reads in the party organ, produces its effect.

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Bagehot emphasizes the impact of external influences on an individual's beliefs.

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It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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

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

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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Walter Bagehot: “What he hears from his friends, what he reads in the party organ, produces its effect.”