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This illusion has been and still is of incalculable benefit to the human race.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot discusses the positive impact of the illusion of loyalty on humanity.
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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.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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