We think as we read, "Thank God, I am not as that man; I did not send green coffee to the Crimea; I did not send patent cartridge to the common guns, and common cartridge to the breech loaders.
Bagehot reflects on the human tendency to feel superior when reading about others' mistakes.
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And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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