Sublime

He was twenty-eight when the master died; and this tragic end of a quiet life left its mark on every phase of the pupil’s thought. It filled him with such a scorn of democracy, such a hatred of the mob, as even his aristocratic lineage and breeding had hardly engendered in him; it led him to a Catonic resolve that democracy must be destroyed, to be

He thinks the absence of such doubt, or self-knowledge, makes for composure, grandeur, a colossal calm, a superior race–in short, the whole claim of the Teutons to be the highest spiritual product of Nature and Evolution.

Les conservateurs britanniques comme les libéraux de la Commission avaient oublié et renié l’enseignement de leur père commun, Disraeli : « Je préfère la liberté dont nous jouissons au libéralisme qu’ils promettent et préfère aux droits de l’homme les droits des Anglais. »