The introduction of new elements into an old political system may revolutionise the whole; the addition of new cloth to an old garment may, we all know, rend the whole asunder.

There is no need for panic; there is the utmost need for prudence.
FOOTNOTES: [5] References made in this treatise to the Home Rule Bill are, unless otherwise stated, made to the Bill as ordered to be printed by the House of Commons, February 17, 1893.

_A Leap in the Dark_ was published months before the Bill was sent up as amended to the House of Lords.
[6] This is true of both of Mr.Gladstone's Home Rule Bills, and must necessarily be true of any Bill which satisfies even for a time the wishes of Home Rulers.
[7] I have substituted New Zealand for Victoria as the example of a typical self-governing colony; the position of Victoria has since 1900 been complicated by the country having become a State of the Australian Commonwealth or Confederation.
[8] See Dicey, _Law of Constitution_ (7th ed.), ch.iii.pp.

136-140.
Compare Mill, _Rep.

Government_, ch.