All the actions of life are to be submitted to a single rule for a single object; that gradually created the 'hereditary drill' which science teaches to be essential, and which the early instinct of men saw to be essential too.
Bagehot argues for the necessity of a single rule governing all actions in life to establish order.
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Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.
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