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Resting as it does upon old deference, and inveterate homage, it shows that the spasm of new forces, the outbreak of new agencies, which we call revolution, is for the time simply impossible.
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Walter Bagehot
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Editor's note · Context
Bagehot suggests that the traditional deference to the House of Lords indicates a lack of revolutionary sentiment in society.
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