And though there may be doubt as to the edges of the conception yet there certainly is a broad road of 'verifiable progress' which not only discoverers and admirers will like, but which all those who come upon it will use and value.
Bagehot acknowledges the existence of a broad path of verifiable progress that is valuable to society.
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Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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 have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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