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In this manner politics or discussion broke up the old bonds of custom which were now strangling mankind, though they had once aided and helped it.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot describes how political discourse can disrupt outdated customs that once served society.
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In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
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