A single competent selector of new inventions would probably in the course of years, after some experience, arrive at something tolerable; it is in the nature of steady, regular, experimenting ability to diminish, if not vanquish, such difficulties.
Bagehot discusses the potential benefits of having a single, experienced individual select new inventions over time.
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The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
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