Walter Bagehot

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Topic

Resistance to change Human nature

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

Physics and Politics

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Walter Bagehot

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Topic

Good intentions Charity

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

Physics and Politics

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

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Conformity Custom and convention

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

The Character of Sir Robert Peel

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." National Review, July 1856.

Current Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." The Best of Bagehot. Hamish Hamilton, 1993.

The world is often wiser than any philosopher.

Walter Bagehot

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Topic

The world Wisdom School of life

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

National Review

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "Article X: The Late Sir G. C. Lewis." The National Review, Oct. 1863.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Walter Bagehot

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Monarchy Democracy

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

The English Constitution

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "The Cabinet." The English Constitution. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. Originally published in The Fortnightly Review, 15 May 1865 - 1 Jan. 1867.