The first person who threw a hard stone--an effectually hitting stone--against the theory was one very little likely to be favourable to democratic influence, or to be blind to the use of aristocracy; it was the present Lord Grey.
Bagehot critiques the influence of aristocracy on democratic theory, referencing Lord Grey's impact.
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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.
The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.
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.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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