...e had abundant experience of our own by which to reckon. Hardly any fact in history, says Mr. Bagehot, writing about the middle of the century, is so incredible as that forty and a few years ago England was ruled by Mr. Perceval. It seems almost the same as being ruled by the newspaper. （Mr. Bagehot would now probably say the newspaper.) He had the same poorness of thought, the same petty con...