There is a remarkable passage in Peel's speech, in which he refers ...

There is a remarkable passage in Peel's speech, in which he refers to the criticism of the Italian economists that their English colleagues concentrated on wealth and overlooked welfare.' But he need not have gone to Italy for it.

He could have heard it from Sadler and Southey and Young England; he could have read it as far back as 1832 in the Quarterly Review.

This alternative economic was not thought out; it remained instinctive, sentimental, feudal; and the natural alliance of the scientific Benthamite administrator and the authoritative Tory gentleman was never fully achieved, or achieved only in India. But it was creeping in and on.