The more we study the nature of Cabinet government, the more we shall shrink from exposing at a vital instant its delicate machinery to a blow from a casual, incompetent, and perhaps semi-insane outsider.
Bagehot warns against exposing the fragile workings of Cabinet government to unpredictable external pressures.
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But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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