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

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Walter Bagehot,  (born February 3, 1826, Langport, Somerset, England—died March 24, 1877, Langport), economist, political analyst, and editor of The Economist who was one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.

His father’s family had been general merchants for several generations, while his maternal uncle Vincent Stuckey was the head of the largest bank in the west of England.

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

Bagehot’s relatives felt that his acute political sense derived from his father, whereas the sparkle and originality of his mind came from his mother.

Bagehot had the severe schooling of an early Victorian. As a child he went to Langport ... (100 of 1334 words) 

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