Men and thought in modern history . it believes in a nationalchurch because it believes in the conservation of the Com-monwealth; it believes in a national system of economy,such, and so suited to the genius of the Commonwealth,that human welfare is the first care and the first chargeon the production of wealth, and while agriculture is notsacrificed to industry, neither is industry sacrificed to agri-culture.—Lord Henry Bentinck (Tory Democracy). Temperamental sympathy, common in youth, is apt,like optimism, to run thin with advancing years. This, infact, is the secret of the number of revers
Men and thought in modern history . it believes in a nationalchurch because it believes in the conservation of the Com-monwealth; it believes in a national system of economy,such, and so suited to the genius of the Commonwealth,that human welfare is the first care and the first chargeon the production of wealth, and while agriculture is notsacrificed to industry, neither is industry sacrificed to agri-culture.—Lord Henry Bentinck (Tory Democracy). Temperamental sympathy, common in youth, is apt,like optimism, to run thin with advancing years. This, infact, is the secret of the number of reversions from Libe-ralism to Conservatism among elderly men.—/. M. Robert-son. The word Tory had from the first a political it designated a particular class of Irish free-booters, and was probably first used in Ireland to express,in a calumnious form, that class of politicians who attri-buted to the king a right of levying taxes without consentof the subject appearing by his proxy in Parliament.— CHAMBERLAIN. [Page 260 Chapter XIX. CHAMBERLAIN AND IMPERIALISM. THE complete change of view which appeared to beindicated by Joseph Chamberlains defection fromthe English Liberal party in 1886, and his alliancewith the Conservative party, signalised by joiningLord Salisburys Cabinet, in 1895, does not seem to havebeen so surprising to those who were intimate with himas it was to the world at large. Lord Morley, who knewhis mind well, observes that it is an error to suppose thatChamberlain ever had anything like complete sympathywith the Manchester programme. As I was writing aboutCobden towards the end of the seventies, our talk naturallyfell now and again upon colonies, non-intervention, foreignpolicy. Without any formal declaration of dissent, I stillhad an instinctive feeling that the orthodox Cobdenite wordwas by no means sure of a place in the operations of thefuture leader. This passage is chiefly convincing by reason of its source,and any con
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