WalterBagehot, a 19th-century editor of the Economist, argued that people like to see a "family on the throne" because it "brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life".
It even misnames the founder of this newspaper as WalterBagehot (it was James Wilson) and misspells the name of the current editor.
他甚至错将本刊创始人认为是沃尔特?白芝浩(实际是詹姆斯·威尔逊),误拼了现任主编的名字。
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WalterBagehot, an authority on bank runs, once wrote: “Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.”