Walter Bagehot: “All living freedom runs back to them, and those truths which at first…”

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All living freedom runs back to them, and those truths which at first sight would seem the whole of historical freedom, can be traced to them.

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Walter Bagehot

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This statement asserts that all contemporary freedoms can be traced back to the early institutions of classical and Germanic nations.

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Walter Bagehot: “All living freedom runs back to them, and those truths which at first sight would seem the whole of historical freedom…”