Walter Bagehot: “Ancient medicine is equally unreasonable: as late down as the Middle Ages it was full of superstitions founded on mere…”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.