...the evil they would cause if conceded ; on the attractiveness of their idea to the working-classes if refused. But in all cases it must be remembered...their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy of ignoranee over instruction and of numbers over knowledge. So long as they are not taught...

...letters of introduction, it was seemly that Bagehot should sanctify economic privilege, should regard a political combination of the lower classes, " as such and for their own objects," " an evil of the first magnitude." He was " exceedingly afraid of the ignorant multitude of the new...

...letters of introduction, it was seemly that Bagehot should sanctify economic privilege, should regard a political combination of the lower classes, " as such and for their own objects," " an evil of the first magnitude." He was " exceedingly afraid of the ignorant multitude of the new...

...questions heing raised which if continually agitated would combine the workingmen as a class together . . . But in all cases it must be remembered that a political...would make them (now that so many of them have the suffragel supreme in the country; and their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy...

...house, can judge much of intellectual matters.10 And what would majority rule by working men entail? But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such and tor their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude; that a permanent combination of them (now...

...(quoted in Anthony Arblaster, The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism, Oxford 1984, p. 266). 21. 'A political combination of the lower classes, as...their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude': The English Constitution, London 1963, p. 277. 22. Indicating that the Norman Yoke is to be found,...

...of a second edition of the English Constitution in 1872 to underline this point. He maintained that 'it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such, and for their own ends, is an evil of the first magnitude ... So long as they are not taught to act together, there is...

...have not', then he is not fit for a guide or an instructor. A statesman who should show that gaucherie would exhibit a defect of imagination, and expose...their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy of ignorance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge. So long as they are not taught...