One of the most enjoyable parts of Bagehot's essay is his attack on the pretensions of Gladstone's alma mater. "No one can deny to it very great and very peculiar merits," writes the University of London alumnus of Oxford University. "But certainly it is not an exciting place and its education operates as a narcotic rather than as a stimulant."
-James Grant, Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
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