The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times . and Ruskin, aregreat names chiefly associated with the Victorian age. 722. New Leaders. — The first Reform Bill gave the voteto 650,000 people, or to one out of six grown men. It marked the end of the Old Regime in power passed from thenarrow landlord class to a morebroad-minded middle-class aristoc-racy. For more than forty years(1790-1830) parHament had openlybeen contemptuous of public opin-ion. Thenceforth it has been nearlyalways promptly responsive to thatforce, and refo
The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times . and Ruskin, aregreat names chiefly associated with the Victorian age. 722. New Leaders. — The first Reform Bill gave the voteto 650,000 people, or to one out of six grown men. It marked the end of the Old Regime in power passed from thenarrow landlord class to a morebroad-minded middle-class aristoc-racy. For more than forty years(1790-1830) parHament had openlybeen contemptuous of public opin-ion. Thenceforth it has been nearlyalways promptly responsive to thatforce, and reform crowded uponreform. During the next forty-two years(1832-1874) the Tories (Conserva-tives 0 were in power less thanone sixth of the time. After thatthey, too, adopted a more liberalpolicy toward the lower classes andsecured longer leases of power. The man who did much tobring about that change was Disraeli, the real leader of theparty through the third quarter of the nineteenth century. ^ Soon after the great Reform Bill the name Conservative began to replaceTory, and Liberal replaced Disraeli. §722] NEW LEADERS 699 Disrarli (later Lord Beaconsficld) was by race a Jew, thoughhe later outwardly attached himself to the Anglican was an author and a brilliant orator. As a politician hehad no very fixed principles, but his shrewd mind told him thatthe influence and power of the Conservatives depended upon theconcession of reforms. An even more important figure was Disraelis great adversary,William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone entered parliament in 1833,and soon proved himself a powerful orator and master ofdebate. Besides, he was an authority on financial began his career as an extreme Tory, but by degrees hegrew more Liberal, and thirty years later he succeeded LordRussell as the acknowledged leader of that party. For thirtyyears more he held that place, — four times as prime minister,^— and at the close of his career many considered him an ext
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