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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


The neutrality of the Black Sea, the prize of 1856, had to ...

The neutrality of the Black Sea, the prize of 1856, had to be surrendered: the Alabama indemnity had to be paid. After 1871 nothing

went right.

There were political jobs almost amounting to public scandals: there was a departmental scandal almost amounting to malversation of public money: Epping Forest was all but sold for building lots. Finally, Mr Gladstone, overrating both his ascendancy and his ingenuity, failed to reconcile the Catholic hierarchy and the Nonconformist Conscience to an Irish University which should teach neither modern history nor philosophy.

England turned to the Tories, and in 1874 the Ballot sent Disraeli back with a majority that recalled the triumph of 1841.' Of the next thirty years, the Conservatives were in power for twenty-two. But to any

observant mind it was manifest

that a revolution of far deeper and wider import than any shift of the balance of power in Europe, or the centre of electoral or social gravity in England, was impending.

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But as the home of mankind grew smaller to the imagination, so ...

But as the home of mankind grew smaller to the imagination, so the history of the race was perceived to I remarked to an old Gladstonian how quiet the Election of 1

But the idea of progress-achieved by experiment, consolidated by law or custom, ...

But the idea of progress-achieved by experiment, consolidated by law or custom, registered by statistics-had, without much straining of logic or conscience,

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