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Such a Parliament could not be composed of moderate men.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Such a Parliament could not be composed of moderate men.”
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Bagehot argues that a parliament composed of moderate individuals would be ineffective.
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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.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
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