Walter Bagehot: “But the greatest defect of the House of Commons is that it has no leisure.”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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.

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