Great communities are like great mountains, — they have in them the primary, secondary, and tertiary strata of human progress ; the characteristics of the lower regions resemble the life of old times rather than the present life of the higher regions. The English Constitution - Página 8por Walter Bagehot - 1867 - 348 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...thought the dullest platitude of cautious soberness. Great communities are like great mountains — they have in them the primary, secondary, and tertiary...radically false, because it has omitted a capital reality — will be a theory essentially misleading, because it will lead men to expect what does not... | |
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