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Does anybody know the source of this quotation? 
 
Walter Bagehot, 1855 --  "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, 
was ever sorry for the death of a political economist; he is much more 
likely to be sorry for his life. You might as well cry at the death of a 
cormorant. Indeed how he can die is very odd. You would think a man who 
could digest all that arid matter; who really preferred 'sawdust without 
butter'; who liked the tough subsistence of rigid formulae, might defy by 
intensity of internal constitution all stomachic or lesser diseases. 
However they do die, and people say that the dryness of the Sahara is 
caused by a deposit of similar bones."  
 
Michael Perelman 
 
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