Edmund James Banfield

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“She had an unequalled gift ... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident—the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)