Word: bagehot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been my pleasure of late to have had need to read "The English Constitution" by Walter Bagehot. These famous essays, it may be noted, first appeared in 1867; and most of the contrasts which the author made were to things American. In the essay entitled "Its Supposed Checks and Balances" I find the following words: "The Americans now extol their institutions, and so defraud themselves of their due praise. But if they had not a genius for politics; if they had not a moderation in action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent; if they had not a regard...
...Bagehot was a shrewd and earnest commentator, not given to irony...