Walter Bagehot: “The cause of types must be something outside the tribe acting on…”

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The cause of types must be something outside the tribe acting on something within--something inherited by the tribe.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot posits that the origins of societal types stem from external influences acting on inherited traits within a tribe.

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Walter Bagehot: “The cause of types must be something outside the tribe acting on something within--something inherited by the tribe.”