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In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

Source: Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sct. 2 (1872).
-- Walter Bagehot, (Feb 3 1826-1877), English economist, editor, critic, analyst; He founded and edited The Economist 1860-77; wrote English Constitution, 1867.

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