One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

1872

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Resistance to change Human nature

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Political literature

Time

1872

Person

Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

Original citation

Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

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