Walter Bagehot: “But innumerable savages have lost all but completely many of the moral rules most conducive to tribal welfare.”

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.