Walter Bagehot: “It tends to keep men in the customary stage of civilisation; its very fitness for that age unfits it for the next.”

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.