The Prime Minister

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• The Duke of Omnium:'But we put all that aside when we really think, and can give the Conservative credit for philanthropy and patriotism as readily as thr Liberal. The Conservative who has had any idea of the meaning of the name which he carries, wishes, I suppose, to maintain the differences and the distances which separate the highly placed from their lower brethren. He thinks that God has divided the world as he finds it divided, and that he may best do his duty by making the inferior man happy and contented in his position, teaching him that the place which he holds is his by God's ordinance.".... The Duke of Omnium:"The doctrine of Liberalism is, of course, the reverse. The Liberal, if he have any fixed idea at all, must, I think, have conceived the idea of lessening distances, -of br... (查看原文)

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• Duke of Omnium:'I did not use the word(指上文中equality),which is open to many objections. In the first place the millennium, which I have perhaps rashly named, ist so distant that we need not even think of it as possible. Men's intellcts are at present so various that we cannot even realize the idea of equality, and here in England we have been taught to hate the word by the evil effects of those absurd attempts which have been made elsewhere to proclaim it as a fact accomplished by the scratch of a pen or by a chisel on a stone. We have been injured in that, because a good word signifying a grand idea has been driven out of the vocabulary of good men. Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it. How can we to whom so much has been given dare to think otherwise? How can you look at the ... (查看原文)

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