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To this day many semi-civilised races have great difficulty in regarding any arrangement as binding and conclusive unless they can also manage to look at it as an inherited usage.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “To this day many semi-civilised races have great difficulty in regarding any arrangement as binding and conclusive…”
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He discusses how semi-civilized societies struggle to view agreements as binding unless they are seen as inherited customs, emphasizing the importance of tradition.
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