And if in reason the omen-finding race were superior to the races in conflict with them, the omen-finding race would win, and we may conjecture that omen-finding races were thus superior since they won and prevailed in every latitude and in every zone.
Bagehot conjectures that races adept at finding omens may have been more successful in conflicts.
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The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
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.
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