It was not to be expected that such a cause, with such a leader, followed by aristocratic youth and attended by the revival of maypole dances and tournaments, should escape ridicule and even suspicion. Grey-headed noblemen, who resented any efforts to render institutions real, and for whom enthusiasm meant vulgarity, shook their heads over the follies of their sons, seduced by the wiles of a designing adventurer. But to such as still doubt Disraeli’s sincerity in these matters, and refuse to be convinced by a long chain of after-utterances, I would simply suggest the following fact. Disraeli’s speech of April 11, 1845, on the Maynooth grant[81] broke up the “Young England” association, and terminated his leadership of it. What was the main principle of that speech? It was this: “... You find your Erastian system crumbling from under your feet.... I have unfaltering confidence in the stability of our Church, but I think that the real source of the danger which threatens it is its connection with the State, which places it under the control of the House of Commons that is not necessarily of its communion.” He denied that the State had ever “endowed” the Church. The Church owned property which was the patrimony of the poor. He argued that since 1829 the State’s relation to the Church had altered. He implied, as he often afterwards asserted, that the union of Church and State was for the benefit of the State far more than for that of the Church. Now, this attitude was eminently that of his “Young England” professions. And yet its fearless expression dissolved a gathering which his detractors maintained was used merely as a step to personal advancement. Carlyle, in the passage above cited, evinced the same irritable impatience that he exhibited in 1849, when he cursed parliamentary institutions because a particular Parliament had over-talked itself. He was an iconoclast who, however, often confused the symbol with the faith that underlies it, and in dethroning the image would have dashed the glamour of its shrine. In 1848--the year of anarchy--Disraeli made a famous speech (the speech which procured him his future leadership of the House). He upheld these institutions while he denounced that very Parliament which moved Carlyle’s indignation. The future has proved him right, and the sage wrong. The practical fruits of the future, too, have vindicated the peculiar tinge that Disraeli himself lent to the “Young England” brotherhood. One closing word on the social aims of “Young England.” I may summarise them by the phrase “Health and Home.” They compassed the relief of industry, and they implied the effort to shame the knights of industry into some chivalry towards it.