“Pitt,” wisely comments Mr. Kebbel, “ended the quarrel between the King and the aristocracy, and reconciled the Whig doctrine of monarchy with the Whig doctrine of Parliament. Peel accommodated Toryism to the new _régime_ established by the Reform Bill, and his name will always be identified with the progress of middle-class reform. _Lord Beaconsfield carried Toryism into the next stage, and made it the business of his life to close up the gap in our social system which ... had been gradually widening, and to reconcile the working classes to the Throne, the Church, and the Aristocracy._” To those who object that beyond Foreign Policy and the last Reform Bill, Disraeli effected little that is lasting, this is the answer. He was prouder of his many social reforms than of his Berlin Treaty. He was a born conciliator. He put a new and powerful leaven into the social lump, and he inspired the generous youth of the country. What he especially sought to mitigate was irresponsible Plutocracy, with a shifting stock of vagrant and unrelated Labour bought in the cheapest market, sold in the dearest; without stability, without ties, without allegiance. “‘I am not against Capital’ (he makes “Enoch Craggs” declaim in _Endymion_), ‘what I am against is Capitalists.’ “‘But if we get rid of capitalists, we shall soon get rid of capital.’ “‘No, no,’ said Enoch, with his broad accent, shaking his head and with a laughing eye. ‘Master Thornberry (the Radical) has been telling you that. He is the most inveterate capitalist of the whole lot.... Master Thornberry is against the capitalists in land; but there are other capitalists nearer home, and I know more about them. I was reading a book the other day about King Charles--Charles I., whose head they cut off--I am very liking to that time, and read a good deal about it; and there was Lord Falkland, a great gentleman of those days, and he said when Archbishop Laud was trying on some of his priestly tricks, that “If he were to have a Pope, he would rather the Pope were at Rome than Lambeth.” So I sometimes think, if we are to be ruled by capitalists, I would sooner, perhaps, be ruled by gentlemen of estate, who have been long among us, than by persons who build big mills, who come from God knows where, and, when they have worked their millions out of our flesh and bone, go God knows where....’”