Walter Bagehot: “In historic times there has been little progress; in prehistoric times there must have been much.”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.