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The social force of admitted superiority by which he overturned his under-secretary is now not with him but against him.
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Walter Bagehot
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This quote discusses the shift in social dynamics and power between a superior and an under-secretary.
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The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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