Walter Bagehot: “But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.”

I own that I do not entirely sympathise with the horror of these anomalies which haunts some of our best critics.

These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.

Political philosophy is still more imperfect; it has been framed from observations taken upon regular specimens of politics and States; as to these its teaching is most valuable.

But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.