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Well, I don't think it is that closely related. Bagehot seems like a more constructive type, as his time and place predicts.
Constructive?
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Well, maybe. He advocates doing the supposed impossible, while merely daydreaming about the forbidden.
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