Modern science explains the wasting away of savage men; it says that we have diseases which we can bear, though they cannot, and that they die away before them as our fatted and protected cattle died out before the rinderpest, which is innocuous, in comparison, to the hardy cattle of the Steppes.
Bagehot compares the vulnerability of indigenous peoples to diseases brought by modern civilization to that of cattle.
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They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
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