Walter Bagehot: “They would have conquered, killed, and plundered them before they…”

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They would have conquered, killed, and plundered them before they became nations; and yet semi-moral nations exist all over the world.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that strong moral families would have prevented the emergence of semi-moral nations through conquest.

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