Since the beginning of man, stream has been a thousand times poured into stream--quick into sluggish, dark into pale--and eddies and waters have taken new shapes and new colours, affected by what went before, but not resembling it.
Bagehot poetically illustrates the mixing of human traits throughout history.
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