Still more then in the more complex combinations and politics of human beings it is likely to be hard to find an agreed criterion for saying which nation is before another, or what age of a nation was marching forward and which was falling back.
Bagehot notes the challenges in establishing criteria for evaluating the progress of nations, reflecting on the subjective nature of such assessments.
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