Walter Bagehot: “Strong as the propensity to imitation is among civilised men, we must conceive it as an impulse of which their minds…”

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.