Sentence:  The Common People became therefore a mystical sympathetic being, essentially a God, whose altar was the hustings and whose oracle the ballot box. A little slow and <WSD>lumpish</WSD> was this God of the Age of European Predominance, but, though his mills ground slowly, men were assured that they ground with ultimate exactitude. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.