Walter Bagehot: “Modern life is scanty in excitements, but incessant in quiet action.”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

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.