Mr Gladstone had two names for this peculiar habit of mind. Once ...
Mr Gladstone had two names for this peculiar habit of mind.
Once he called it 'a sneaking kindness for a lord'; at another time, more characteristically, 'the shadow which the love of freedom casts or the echo of its voice in the
halls of the constitution'. The philosophic
historian may take his choice, and it is easier to frame a defence or an indictment of the Victorian attitude to aristocracy than to understand why, in a money-making age, opinion was, on the whole, more deferential to birth than to money, and why, in a mobile and progressive society, most regard was hard to the element which represented immobility, tradition, and the past.Perhaps the statement will be found to include the solution.
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