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Free Harvard might well be considered a constitutional government. It certainly qualifies under Bagehot's criteria, for Harvard has both "dignified" parts (the President, the Lampoon, the Advocate, and the final clubs) and "efficient" parts (John Monro, the Soc Rel department, Student Council, and the Harvard Times Republican). There is also a natural judiciary in the Housemasters and a Parliament, with the faculty playing Lords and the Student Council playing Common...
...completeness is your aim, choose an author who is easily embraced, that is, whose works you can collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers...
Camus has seen much and has seen well; but his vision is not entirely new Rebellion itself it age old, and the concept of its limits is not without precedent. Writing in the 19th Century, Walter Bagehot described a controlled dynamism much like that for which Camus seems to yearn. It is essential that man be able to question society; it is no less essential that his questioning recognize limits so as not to destroy it. In Camus' lucid style the problem is restated, examined, and clarfied. But the literary excellence of the essay is incidental. As the serious intellectual...
...treat all kings." The majority of 20th century Socialists are more apt to raise their pints in ancient and loyal homage. The change has come about because British monarchs, since Victoria, have learned to express and affect what modern men call "the aspirations of the collective subconscious." Historian Walter Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart of the monarchy is mysticism; its sanctity is its life. Another mystical belief, that of a Britannic Renaissance, seized the coronation crowds. Wrote Poet Laureate John Masefield...
Over all of the realms, Elizabeth II will reign but not govern; as a constitutional monarch, her political rights were classically defined by Political Scientist Walter Bagehot in 1867, as three: "to be consulted, to encourage, to warn." In addition, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, "she is also heir to all our united strength and loyalty . . . Thus we go forward, moving together in freedom and hope, spread across the oceans and under every sky and climate though...