Disraeli: A Study in Personality and IdeasSichel, Walter
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Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas
Sichel, Walter
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881
summary of his ideal for making Toryism “national,” 107;
“household democracy,” 109;
Disraeli’s long consistency, 108-110;
lifelong attitude to Labour, 112-129;
problems of 1830-40 ... 113;
Disraeli’s social outlook on “condition of England” and economical
problems, 114 _et seq._;
upshot of his sympathy with labour (_q.v._), 116 _et seq._, 118,
119;
vision of a vanishing industrialism, 119;
the spirit of chivalry applicable to labour, 122;
“saviours of society,” 122;
and “Anglicanism,” 126;
he breaks up “Young England” (1845) by pressing home their Church
convictions, 128;
parochial life more important even than political, 127;
his views of “Free Trade” (_q.v._), 131-142;
influence on prices and wages of precious metals, 131,
_n._ 1, 133, 140;
“Reciprocity,” 129, 131, 138, 140;
attitude on Corn Laws, 131-135;
distribution of labour and purchasing power, 113, 131;
Disraeli’s probable attitude towards Mr. Chamberlain’s present
fiscal scheme adumbrated: wholesale plans, retail
applications, 135-141;
consumer and producer, 136;
social, political, spiritual aspects of _Church_ (_q.v._) viewed
from Disraeli’s theocratic bias, 145-179;
Puritanism and Theocracy, 149, 151;
and Ireland, 200;
Aryan and Semitic conceptions, 145 _et seq._;
Anglican Church “part of England,” “one of the few great
things left,” 153;
society, inconceivable without religion, 155;
part played by this attitude in his novels, 155-156;
and science, 156-159;
and revelation by races, 157, _n._ 1;
materialism, 158;
Disraeli’s beliefs, _ib._, 155;
State would lose by severance, 159-163;
“Atheism in domino,” 166;
“Man in masquerade,” 170;
not a “mystic,” 156;
attitude on education (_q.v._), 167-169;
discipline, 169, 170;
universities, 169;
his bias for _Monarchy_, 180-184;
and royal prerogative, 184, 189-192, and fully the whole of Ch. V.;
Royal Titles Bill, 193-194;
cheapness of monarchy, 192;
debt to Bolingbroke’s ideas, 195-198
_Colonies_ (_q.v._), Disraeli’s zeal and plans for, 198;
Disraeli’s attitude to “millstone” view investigated, 200-203;
“Peace at any price,” 207;
“timidity of capital,” 202;
power of instancing political precedent, 213, _n._ 1;
origin of his title, 44, _n._
_Empire_ (_q.v._ and _Foreign Policy_), temper of his imperialism,
209 _et seq._, 245;
principles of his policy illustrated, 210-214, 217-221;
Eastern policy considered, discussed, and illustrated, 222-236;
“the just influence of England,” 235;
diplomacy, 221-222;
Cyprus, 230;
his attitude to France (_q.v._), 235-239;
Germany (_q.v._), 240;
Austria and Italy (_q.v._), 241-243;
Poland, Greece (_q.v._), 243;
pronouncement on militarism with constitutional _forms_, 244;
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