Walter Bagehot: “Experience shows how incredibly difficult it is to get men really to encourage the principle of originality.”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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

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.