'The old type of judicial member,' Salisbury told the Queen, 'who sat ...

'The old type of judicial member,' Salisbury told the Queen, 'who sat loose to party, and could be trusted to be fair, has disappeared. They are all partisans: 'delegates, bound by the contract that if the electors vote as the candidate asks them, the member shall think as the organization bids him / her: 'greedy place-seekers', the Queen sobbed, 'who do not care a straw for what their old sovereign suffers,' bearers of such unhistoric names as Asquith and Morley and Bryce.

BUT if we survey this landscape in another light, we are aware of a certain fading of one familiar tint.

An observer from a distant planet, able to watch the seasonal changes on the earth's surface, would have noticed that everywhere the golden area was growing, except in England, where the green was winning against the gold. He would rightly have concluded that a change of cultivation was in progress.

He would not have known that he was witnessing the end of a social order.