Most men inherited a nature too eager and too restless to be quiet and find out things; and even worse--with their idle clamour they 'disturbed the brooding hen,' they would not let those be quiet who wished to be so, and out of whose calm thought much good might have come forth.
Bagehot critiques the tendency of people to disrupt those who seek quiet reflection necessary for innovation.
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