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Updated: May 14, 2025

The early Roman character was so formed too. Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back to a time of rigid and pervading discipline. In modern times, when society is more tolerant, new national characters are neither so strong, so featurely, nor so uniform.

Walter Bagehot - Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society