Walter Bagehot: “If the function of a Parliamentary Minister is to be an outsider to his office, we must not choose one who, by habit…”

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.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!