Walter Bagehot: “The whole issue is based on a single election--on the choice of President; by that internecine conflict all else is won…”

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

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

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.