I can conceive of nothing more corrupting or worse for a set of poor ignorant people than that two combinations of well-taught and rich men should constantly offer to defer to their decision, and compete for the office of executing it.
Bagehot warns of the corrupting influence of powerful groups manipulating the decisions of the ignorant.
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The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
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