Walter Bagehot: “The excitement of choosing our rulers is prevented by the apparent existence of an unchosen ruler.”

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.