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.
--W. Bagehot
Well, maybe. He advocates doing the supposed impossible, while merely daydreaming about the forbidden.
Constructive?
--W. Bagehot
Well, maybe. He advocates doing the supposed impossible, while merely daydreaming about the forbidden.