Walter Bagehot: “It is of use so long as it keeps others out of the first place, and is guarded and retired in that place.”

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.

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.