Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield [and _see_ Carlyle, Colonies, Empire, Reform Bill, America, Ireland, and Foreign Policy], his idea of Conservatism, 5-8, 39, 204; a poet and artist, 11, 36; his early surroundings, 16-18, 268-272; unique phases of earliest youth, 16, 18, 275, 309-312, 321-325; distinction between wish for influence and for position, 12; his mission, 5-7, 12, 49-52, 56, 111, 119, 210; regrets Lord Derby’s temerity then, as much as his timidity in the _gran’ rifuto_ of 1855 ... 191, _n._, 213, _n._; indisposition to take office, 1852 ... 14; never opportunist: courted unpopularity, _ib._; “national” attitude, 19, 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 66, 68, 84, 191, _n._, 210; responsibility and privilege, 7, 13, 95, 98, 107, 144, 210; utterances to be viewed successively, 20; described in youth, 22-25; described in age, 25-27; debt, 24, 281-282; gambling, 282; contradictions in, 46, 47; reconciliation of, 43, 293; illness, 23, 311, 324, 325; love of flowers and forestry, 26; light and books, _ib._; influence with Queen, 29; and art, 19, 30; manners, 31; love of London, 31, 307-308; vigilance, 32, 246; generosity, 34, 35; contrasted with Gladstone, 35-42; scholarship, 36; love of beauty, 17; his longsighted plan, 39; land, labour, democracy, and empire, _ib._; principles and measures, _ib._; duties of opposition, 40; wish for strong government, _ib._, 42, 50, 210, 252; dislike of bores, 40, 44, 224; “nationality and race,” 45, 225; “detachment,” 46; influence of eighteenth century on, _ib._; “predisposition,” _ib._; religious ideas, _ib._; “feudal and federal principles,” 51, 63; change and “obsolete opinions,” 51, 81; French Revolution theories, 58-68, 83, 85, 97, 145; historical outlook, 73-77, 81-83; revolutions, 47, 72; republican plots, 77; dread of plutocracy, 6, _n._ 3, 77, 111, 115, 129, 202; universal suffrage, 77-80, 98-104; gentlemen should prove leaders, 80; conduct in 1852 ... 39, 40; store set by landed interest, 68, 71, 86, 95, 114, 135; languages, 241; classics, 249; middle classes, 83, 105, 123-124, 134-135, 251; efficacy of Parliament (1848), 87; his principles of representation, 94; taxation and, 94; income-tax and middle class, 96; views prophecies as to social effects of Peel’s changes, 97; uniform wish throughout for industrial franchise, 98 _et seq._; “free aristocracy,” 49, 98, 118, 119; adopted rating principle of Russell in 1854 ... 100; the consistent train which led to his measure of 1867, 99-101; counties and boroughs, 100, 104; wanted democracy as an element, not a class, 101; “population” and property standards, 101-104; wish for variety in representation, 98, 104; discontent and disaffection, 106;