Walter Bagehot: “Mill was returned by the electors of Westminster; and they have never, since they had members, done themselves so great…”

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

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

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.