Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.


The English Constitution... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review." (ed. 1872)

Walter Bagehot Quotes

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious ...

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious ...

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious ...

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious ...