For the want of all which makes Paris nice and splendid we justly reproach the Corporation of London; for the existence of much of what makes London mean and squalid we justly reproach it too.
Bagehot contrasts the reproaches against the Corporation of London for its shortcomings and failures.
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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.
And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
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.
They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
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