[71] Cf. speech, May 18, 1871. The Whigs, who in 1843 called it “a fungus of monopoly,” worked and upheld it afterwards as “Liberals.” Now that a democracy and an Empire are being “run” at the same time, its permanence, for many years questioned, seems assured.
[72] This preluded the “Lodger franchise,” of which, in 1867, Disraeli said he had been “the father” (cf. p. 108).
[73] Cf. p. 109.
[74] This once more is emphasised by De Tocqueville as the essence of centralisation.
[75] Cf. Morley’s “Gladstone,” vol. i. p. 262.
[76] Cf. the passage from The Press, cited ante, p. 7 note, and post at opening of Chapter VI.
[77] Bishop Latimer—quoted as motto to Sybil.
[78] Book iv. ch. iv.: “... To be a noble Master among noble Workers will again be the first ambition with some few; to be a rich Master only the second.”
[79] “Sidonia” stands for several types in addition to Disraeli’s own. “Oswald Millbank” is in part painted from the young Gladstone. Most of the other characters in Coningsby are familiarly ascribed to their originals.
[80] This phrase he twice repeats; the first time in that fine speech at the Manchester Athenæum (1844), on the “Acquirement of Knowledge,” which expressed his undying sympathy with the ideals, perplexities, and possibilities of youth.