Walter Bagehot: “Where then, so to say, are the rats and horses of the primitive civilisation?”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.