The interlaced character of human affairs requires a single determining energy; a distinct force for each artificial compartment will make but a motley patchwork, if it live long enough to make anything.
Bagehot argues for the need of a singular force in governance to avoid chaos in human affairs.
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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.
The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
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.
They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
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