Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas

INDEX

Addington, 82
Addison, 286
Afghanistan, 215 et seq. and n. 1
Ali Pacha, 271
America, on primitive and Puritans, 250;
“landed” democracy, 67, 91, n. 1, 246, 251;
Canadian “retaliation” on, 136, n. 1;
Church, 148–152, 204, 244;
Disraeli’s discernment regarding, 48, 234, 246–247;
civil war would transform colonial into imperial spirit, 247–250;
Anglophobia, his wise distinctions as to, 250–253;
Fenianism, insight regarding, 253–256;
the negro difficulty, 251;
manners, 283;
Disraeli on marriage in, 287;
manners, 283
Antonelli, 175
Austen, Jane, 302, 305
Austin, Mrs., 10, 23, 31, 270
Austria, 208, 226, 240;
Disraeli’s attitude towards, 241, 291
Baring, Thomas, 269
Basevi, George, 269
——, Nathaniel (alluded to), 269
Baumer (valet), (alluded to), 26
Beaumarchais, 309
Bentinck, Lord G., 41, n. 1, 42, n. 1, 304
Berlin Congress, 45, 217, 227, 231, 235, 239;
Disraeli at, 326, n. 1
Bismarck, Prince, 45, 241, 326, n. 1
Blessington, Lady, 47, 271, n. 2;
Disraeli on, 277 and notes
Bliss, Dr. (antiquarian), 269
Bolingbroke, Lord, 3;
Disraeli’s clue, 11, 24, 25, n. 1, 46, 51, n. 2, 72, 83, n. 2;
Utrecht Treaty, 129, 130, 172, n. 2;
ideas of monarchy—their influence on Disraeli, 194–198, 203, n. 2, 206, 234, 259
Borthwick, 125
Bowring, Sir J., 221
Brandes, 9
Bright, John, 98, 109, (1879) 206;
and Gladstone, 207–208;
his tribute to Disraeli, 247
British Columbia (1858), 200
Brontës, the, 301
Brooks, Shirley, 25, n. 1
Brougham, Lord, 51
Browning, R., 313
Bryce, Rt. Hon. J., 9, 247
Buckingham, Duke of, 271
Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, 225, 226 et seq.;
the two portions only repieced through the “autonomy” implanted by Disraeli in one of them, 227
Bulwer, Sir H., 43, n.
Burke, Edmund, 3, 25, 44, n., 46, 55, 67, 72, 83, n. 2, 194, 198, 203, n. 2, 280
Burney, Frances, 268
Byron, Lord, 47, 183, 270, 275;
Disraeli on, 276;
in Ixion, 276, n. 1;
“Cadurcis,” 293, 321;
quoted, 15
Canada, 136, n. 1, 137, 200 and n. 2, 206, n. 1, 247, 250
Canning, 3, 25;
dedication to, 48, 55, 195, 198
Cape, the, 201, 213
Carlyle, Thomas, 34, 35, 58, 125, 126;
identity of ideas with Disraeli’s, 62, 77, 85–92, 119, 238, n. 1;
picturesque, 303;
style, 313
Carnarvon, Lord, 213
Caroline, Queen, 24, n. 4, 277, n. 2
Castlereagh, Lord, “solidarity of Europe,” 209
Cervantes, 293
Chartism, 11, 61, 87, 106;
Disraeli’s sympathy with Chartists in 1840, 113;
in 1852 ... 26, n. 1
Chatham, Lord, 3;
Disraeli on, 24, 74, 195, 200;
empire, 208
China, 221, 234
Church, 69, 70, 90;
one of the problems, 1830–40 ... 113, 125;
and “Labour,” 126, 127, 129;
Disraeli’s historical and social ideas on Church and Theocracy, 145–156;
Anglicanism and Puritanism, 149, 152–155;
undoing of national Church a disaster for Nonconformists, 153–154;
attitude to latter, 163–165;
science, materialism, indifferentism, “higher” criticism, rationalism, 156–158, 165–166;
Ritualism, 170;
education (q.v.), 167–169;
discipline, 169–170;
Romanism, 171–178;
“The great house of Israel,” 179;
“Corybantic Christianity,” 174;
Radicalism, Liberalism, and Romanism, 175, (1836) 184;
Irish, 262–266
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 286
Clanricarde, Lady, 295
Clay, J., 270
Cobbett, 105
Cobden, R., 34;
and Gladstone, 40, n. 2, 86, 238
Coleridge, S. T., 125
Colonies, 32, 49, 51;
Disraeli’s early interest in, 199;
federations and constitutions, 201;
critical state of home feeling regarding, 1839–53, 201;
effect of democracy on, 202;
Disraeli’s important pronouncements regarding, 203–206;
Gladstone’s and Bright’s policy contrasted, 207 et seq.;
self-government, 207–214;
and America, 250–252
Copley, Sarah, 22, 270
Cowper, W. (poet), quoted, 13;
empire, 208, 245
Croker, 269 and n. 4
Cromwell, Oliver, 3;
republican theocracy, 149, 180;
Ireland, 261
Currie, Lady, 29
Dante, theocracy, 147
Davison, Mr., letter to (quoted), 272
Denmark, 213, n. 1, 235, 239
Derby, Lord, 14, (1852) 25, n. 1, 39, 41, n. 2, 136–138, (1852 and 1855) 191, n. 1;
on Russian methods, 226;
Ireland, 260, n. 1
Dickens, Charles, 289;
romance, 302
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;
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;
his farewell to constituents sums up his lifelong aims, and repeats the phrase, twice used, of his youth, 244–245;
England restored to her due European position, 227, 332;
European concert, 209, 230;
lasting results, 216, 227, 229, 230;
Bulgaria (q.v.), Eastern Roumelia, and autonomy, 227
America (q.v.), early predictions, 48, 246–250;
“revolution” distinguished from “insurrection,” 247, n. 1;
must be treated as an imperial power affecting Europe, 234, 248;
the changes produced by her civil war, 248–249;
Disraeli alone recognised the significance of the war, 247;
his discerning treatment of Anglophobia, 250–253;
negro problem, 251;
Fenianism, its true character, 253–256, 261
Ireland (q.v.), Disraeli’s early sympathy, and great insight into true difficulties of, 256, 261;
distinguishes discontent from rebellion, 261;
disestablishment and disendowment, 262–265
Society, attitude to, 31, 44;
early society around Disraeli, 268–272;
his idea of real, 273–277, 284–285;
love of purpose, 276;
social charity, 277;
love of contrasts, 277–278;
foibles, 278–279;
against social melancholy, 279;
conversation, 279–281;
debt, 281–282;
friendship and ailments, 281;
and trial, 288;
“Levison and the coals,” 282, n. 2;
the “Swells,” 283;
political society, 283;
salons, 274 and n. 1;
club loungers, 284;
domesticity, 284–285;
women, love, and marriage, 285–287;
dream-pictures, 287–288
Wit and humour distinguished, 289;
nature of Disraeli’s—“a master of sentences,” 290;
retorts, ib.;
aphorisms, 291–293;
phrases, 293;
similes, 292;
political pictures, 292, 294–295;
sense of ludicrous, 295–300;
pathetic irony illustrated, 300–301
Romance and picturesqueness, 301–308;
Disraeli’s romanticism, 302–304;
associative feeling and description, 290, n. 1, 304;
scenery and light, 305–307;
forms and sounds of trees, 306;
the marvellous, 307;
love of and intimacy with London, 307–308;
blemishes of style considered and explained, 309–331;
pathos, 309, 310;
mode of preparation, 313;
influence of the arts, 313–314;
critics, 291, 315;
par excellence an imaginative fantastic, 313, 315;
character of his fancy, 290;
poetry, 304, 311, 323
Ideas on career, 316;
preparation and education (q.v. sub-title), 317;
second-hand adaptation, 318;
action, ib.;
life true piety, not brooding on death, ib.;
maxims, 319;
“aloofness,” 320;
“audacity,” 321;
sensitiveness and courage, 321;
idealism, 322;
reverie, ib.;
industry, 326
His own career (and see above);
earliest phases of, 322–325;
dividing lines and moot points of, adverted to, 319;
posthumous treatment by party, 325;
tributes to, by Gladstone, Salisbury, and Granville, 326;
character, 326
Fiction—earliest works, 23, and n. 1;
American pamphlet quoted, 48;
his verse, 340, n.;
his books quoted, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
on leisure, 32;
enthusiasm, 15;
characters in, ib., 17, 122, n. 1, 125, 129, 141, 274 and n. 1;
habit of transference, 16, 175, 210, 275, 277;
in Alarcos, 16, 17;
“predisposition” (real Toryism) and “education” (poets), 18, 19, 31;
Vivian Grey, 17, 32, 33, 44, 112, 117, 181, 270, 273, 275;
its effects, 275;
circumstances under which written, 309–310, 311, 323–324;
its original dedication, 312, n. 1, 315
Change and national character, 55, 56;
physical wants, 60;
man’s destiny, 59;
true aristocracy, 62;
“Equality” and Labour, 63, 64;
institutions and nationalism, 65, 68;
modern unoriginality, 69;
“Estates” of realm, 68 (cf. 72, 82, 93, 95, 97, 226);
“Marney” and dukeism, 75;
old Whigs and Tories, 81–82;
taxation, 82, n. 1;
Burke, ib., n. 2;
monopoly of power, ib., n. 3;
bigotry of philosophy, 83;
Reform Bill, 84, 91, 93, 94;
utilitarianism (q.v.), 87, 88, 123;
towns, 115;
labour and leadership, ib.;
House of Commons, 116;
labour, 118;
industry and industrialism, 119;
a “dawn” for the People, 120;
laissez-faire (Popanilla), 123;
Milnes (q.v.), 125;
Radicals for capital, 129;
Young England (q.v.), 130;
“Free exchange,” 142;
Theocracy, 145;
Church, 155;
and science, 156–163;
races instruments for special revelations, 157, n. 1;
scepticism, 160;
Ritualism, 170;
Catholicism, 171–178;
Lothair analysed, 172–178;
monarchy, 180–185;
political change per se, evil, 183;
colonies, 199;
“un-English,” 203;
militarism, 244;
sympathy and empire, 217;
Semitism, 222, n. 1;
civilisation of Mediterranean, 223, n. 1;
Alfieri, 241;
Italy, 241–242;
Ireland, 258;
Fenianism, 255;
Rogers (Infernal Marriage), 269, n. 1;
architects, ib., n. 3;
Gore House, 271, n. 2;
society (Infernal Marriage), 273;
breeding (Lothair), (Coningsby), (Sybil), 274;
(Venetia), (Vivian Grey), (Contarini Fleming), 275;
Luttrell (q.v.), 276;
D’Orsay (q.v.), ib.;
Byron (q.v.), 276–277;
Ixion, ib.;
Lady Blessington (q.v.), (Young Duke), (Popanilla), 277;
(Sybil), ib.;
(Infernal Marriage), ib.;
startling contrasts, 278;
(Popanilla, Ixion, Sybil), ib.;
foibles (Popanilla), ib.;
(Coningsby, Young Duke, Venetia), 279;
(Lothair), 279;
conversation (Young Duke), 280;
(Lothair), 281;
debt (Henrietta Temple), 282;
gambling (Vivian Grey, Young Duke), ib.;
“Swells,” (Lothair), 283;
political society (Sybil, Endymion, Young Duke), 283–284;
club loungers, civic dinners, 284;
home life (Lothair, Venetia), 284–285;
women (Lothair, Coningsby, Henrietta Temple, Vivian Grey, Contarini Fleming), 285–287;
and marriage, friendship, 287–288;
Wit, Humour, and Romance, many passages, Ch. IX., passim;
impartiality (Alroy), 321;
Correspondence and Letters, 23, n. 4, 32, 131, n. 1, 271, 272, 324, n. 1, 325
Pamphlets (and see “Press,” The)—What is he? 1, 21, 33, 50;
and Spirit of Whiggism, Runnymede Letters, 50, 66, 95, 149, n. 1, 197, 198;
Crisis Examined, 21, n. 1, 51;
Letter to Lord Lyndhurst, 51, 72, n. 2;
Whiggism, Republicanism, Jacobinism, 74, 75–77;
centralisation, ib., 93, 104;
reform, 92;
civil equality, 94;
public opinion, 106;
labour, 112;
Corn Laws, 131;
monarchy, 181, 184;
“national party,” 196
Revolutionary Epick and Shelley, 47, 51, 68, 85;
labour, 112, 311
Speeches, 14, 38, 44, 50 (election address, 1832), 53;
Equality, 64–65;
Popular principles (1847), 69;
Social and national importance of landed interests, 71, 72, 95;
property and middle classes, 78–79;
agitators, 79, 80, 106;
importance of party system, 84, n. 1, 85, 86;
land, 86;
utilitarianism (q.v.), 90 et seq.;
triennial parliaments, 92, (1846) 97;
Reform speeches, (1848–59) 98–107, (1859) 101;
public opinion, 106;
ideal and national Toryism, 107;
“popular privileges” and “democratic rights,” 107;
Edinburgh (1867), 109;
Chartists (1840), 113;
Labour (1872–74), 116;
“Trustees of posterity,” bis, 123, 130;
anti-Erastianism, (1845) 128, (1848) ib.;
labour and gold, 133;
Social ills and remedies of Free Trade, (1852) 135, (1879) 140;
reciprocity, 138–139;
social remedies (1872), 143;
Church, 149;
pledge for religious liberty, a benefit to Nonconformists, 153;
Dissenting “sacerdotalism” (1870), 154;
State would lose by severance from it of Church (1870), 159;
parish life (1860), 163;
Dissent, 164;
religious revival, 160;
rationalism (1861), 166;
education (1832, 1839, 1854, 1867, 1870, 1872), 167–169;
danger to State if the civil ecclesiastical powers, disunited, collide, 161;
monarchy, (1872) 188–189, (1861) 194;
colonies (1848), 200, 234;
colonial empire, (1863) 204, (1872) 295;
imperialism, (1862) 210, (1855) ib.;
“annexation,” (1879) 212–215, 216;
consideration for subject races and foreign powers, (1879) 217–221, (1856) 221, (1871) 228–229, (1860) 234–235, (1853) 236, (1864) 237, (1858) 237–238, (1864) ib., (1879) 239, (1878) 232, n. 1;
Burials Bill (1880), 290, n. 2;
diplomacy, (1860) 222, (1864) ib.;
Russia’s lawful ambition, 229;
Berlin Treaty, 231, 235;
“Pan-Slavism,” 232;
“balance of power,” (1864) 234, (1870) 240;
interference, 210, 235, 240;
humanity (1876), 225;
actuating principles of his outlook (repeating his earliest pamphlets), (1876) 244, (1881) 221;
foresight as to America (1863), 247–248;
speeches of discernment on America (1856), 248, 249;
American Anglophobia, (1865) 250–251, (1871) 251–253;
negroes, 251–252;
Fenianism (1872), 254;
Ireland, (1843) 256, (1844) 256–258;
Maynooth, (1846) 257, n. 1, (1858) 260, n. 1, (1868) 259, 261, (1869) 260;
his four great speeches, (1868–69) 264–266, (1869) 260, (1871) 247, (1872) 254;
Peel (1846), 278;
Wit, (1845–49) 292, (1833, 1846, 1859, 1860, 1876) 295
“Democracy,” attitude to, 7, 33, 39, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, and Chap. II. passim, 58, 66, 69, 83, 88, n. 1, 91, 92, and n. 1, 93, 95, 97, 98–111, 117, 137, 201;
in 1884 ... 100, 107–108;
a true sovereignty, 119;
America, 251
Education, 11, 97, 98, 100, 101–106, 154, 159, 167–169, 317, 318, 323
Qualities—generally, 26, 32;
ambition (its nature), 11, 12, 17, 323, and Ch. X. passim;
self-control, 37, 321;
aristocratic perception, popular sympathies, 49;
buoyancy, 32;
carelessness of money, 27;
chivalry, 29, 286;
courage, 25, 321;
eloquence, 36;
philippics, 41, n. 2;
foresight and insight, 32, 35, 54, 96, 97, 115, 117, 118, 133–135, 140, n. 1, 199, 207, 240, 247, 249, 266, 284, 294, 321;
friendship, 29;
genius (“auto-suggestive”), 15, 16;
gratitude, 27, 34, 325;
humour, 37, and Ch. IX. passim;
idealism, 16, 17, 322, and Ch. VIII., IX., and X. passim;
imagination, 3, 52, 209, 221, and Ch. VIII., IX., and X. passim;
independence (even when unpopular), 14, and Ch. VIII. and X. passim;
individuality, 13, 19, 46, 49, 275, and Ch. VIII. and X. passim;
intensity, 16, 321, 322;
irony, Ch. IX. passim, 300–301;
loneliness, 35, 284, and Ch. X. passim;
loyalty and friendship, 29, 288;
magnanimity, 15;
instances of, 34, 213, n. 1;
mystery, 44, 238, n. 1, 323;
parliamentary, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, 283, 292, 294–295;
patience, 25, 316;
reserve, 35, 226, 284;
reverie, 32, 322;
romance, 18, and Ch. IX. passim;
sense of destiny and a mission, 12, 18, 46, 59, 310, and Ch. IX. and X. passim;
sympathy with labour, 26, 39, 48, 60, 61, 64;
his view of industrial franchise, 98–107;
capacities of working classes, 105, 111, 112–129;
fruits of, 116–117, 138;
tenacity, 35, 36;
will, 11, 14, 25, 40, 43, 47, 316; wit, 33, 43, 44;
considered fully, Ch. IX.
Defects, 15, 31, 35, 42, 43, 209, 240, 304, 309–313, 319, 321;
characterised, 321, 322;
style, 203, and Ch. IX. passim
Anecdotes of, Ch. I. passim, 16, n., 135, 241, 254, 256, 268–272, 279, 281, 286, 287, 288, 290–291, 300, 319, 321, 323, 325, 326, n.
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield’s grandfather), 16, 270, and n. 1
——, Mrs. (Lady Beaconsfield), 10;
Disraeli’s tributes to, 27;
stories of, 28, 29, 30, 35, 268, 286, 288
Disraeli, Isaac, 23;
letter of (alluded to), 24, n. 1;
influence on his son, 46, 172;
phrases, 203, n. 2;
his surroundings, 268–271;
advice to his son, 275;
phrases, 293, 300
——, Sarah, 10, 17, n., 22;
her influence, 324
D’Orsay, Count, 268;
Disraeli on, 276;
“Count Mirabel,” 277, 291
Douce, F. (antiquarian), 269
Downman, H., 269
——, J., 269
Doyle, 124
Dundas, Sir D., 44
Durham, Lord, 14, n. 1
Egypt, 208, 221;
Suez Canal, 222
Eldon, Lord, 5, 50, 82, 259
Eliot, George, 302
Empire, 49, 53, 54, 92, 161, 193, 205–207, 209–210, 212–245
Ewald, Mr., 9, 207
——, Professor, 146
Faber, 124;
“St. Lys,” 126
Falconieri, Tita, 24, n. 2, 270
Foreign Policy [and see various countries, including Poland];
Disraeli’s principles of, 210–216, 217, 231, 234, 235;
temper of his imperialism, 193, 205, 207, 209, 212–245;
pacificatory, 210, 214, 216, 221, 235;
principles of diplomacy, 209, 222
Fox, Charles, 40, 213, n. 1
France, 45, 66, 173, n. 1;
Disraeli’s desire for entente with, and general policy towards, 236–239;
and Italy, 239;
and Eastern question, ib.
Frederick the Great (quoted), 223, n. 1
“Free Trade,” 36, 86, n. 1, 96, 97, 112, 114, 131–141;
Disraeli’s probable attitude towards Mr. Chamberlain’s present fiscal schemes, illustrated by Disraeli’s own pronouncements, 135–140;
colonies a set-off to urban effects, cf. 202, 213, n. 1;
Ireland, 260
French Revolution, theories of, 2, 46, 58–69
Frere, Sir Bartle, 212–215
Frith, Mr., R. A., 28
Froude, 9
Garnett, Dr. R., 47
George III., 74, 187, 197
—— IV., 181; society under, 272
Germany, 45;
theology, 166;
Disraeli’s attitude towards, 240;
discerns purport of the war, 1870, ib.
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., 34;
compared with Disraeli, 35–42, 55, 98;
and Cobden, 40, n. 2;
and Oswald Millbank, 122, n. 1;
Catholic University Bill, 169, n. 1;
favours Canadian “retaliation” on America, 136, n. 1;
prerogative, 190–191;
and Bright, 207–208;
precedent, 213, n. 1;
corrected, 128, n. 1, 172, 184, 187, 222, n. 1, 258;
his praise, 256, 262, 264;
on Disraeli’s wit, 295;
alluded to, 295;
on indifference to world, 318;
tribute of, to Disraeli, 326;
inconsistencies in tactics, 36, n. 1
Goethe, 15, 63, 157
Gordon, General, 208
Graham, Sir J., 34, 41, 236
Graves, Mr., and Bradenham, 24, n. 1
Grant-Duff, Sir Mountstuart, 34
Granville, Lord, 295;
tribute of, to Disraeli, 326
Greece, 224–225, 226, 232, n. 1, 243
Greenwood, Mr. Frederick, 43, n. 1
Grey, Lord, 21, 74, 109, 110
Guthrie, Dr., 43
Hallam, A., 124
Hamid, Abdul, 227, 232, n. 1, 233
Hartington, Lord (Duke of Devonshire), on Disraeli, 12, 254
Hatherley, Lord, 44
Hayward, Abraham (critic), 17, n. 2, 38
Heine, Heinrich, 9;
on the People, 121;
humour, 296
Herbert, Sidney, 39
Hook, Theodore, 270
Hope, “Anastasius,” 124
——, Mr. Beresford, 290
Hudson, Sir J., 213
Hume (reformer), 77, 94;
refuted on taxation theory, 97, 98, 103, 105, 112, 201
India, 193, 200;
Disraeli’s policy for, 215, 216;
the Mutiny, 217–221, 225, 232;
his Eastern policy, Indian, 232, and passim throughout Ch. VI.
Ireland, 33, 84, 127, 132, 133, 175;
Disraeli’s early sympathy with, 256;
follows Pitt’s policy, ib.;
his wonderful early speeches on the real question, 256–258;
interpreted by later and much later utterances, 258–260;
and Disraeli’s view of coercion, 258, n. 1;
wish for strong government and an executive in touch with the people, 258, 260;
variety of employment, 261;
“conquered people,” 261, n. 1;
Fenianism (see America), ib., n. 2;
progress from 1844 to 1868, 260–262;
disestablishment and disendowment of Church, 262–266;
Disraeli’s warning, 1881 ... 266;
policy “to create, not to destroy,” 259, 261;
against “identity of institutions,” 257;
land question, 265, 267;
pauperism, 260
Italy, 45, 226;
Disraeli’s attitude towards, 241–243;
his private sympathy checked by public policy, 241–242
Jamaica, 201
Johnson, Dr., 280
Jowett, Benjamin, cited on Eastern question, 230;
on Disraeli, 321
Kandahar, 208, 215 et seq. and n. 1
Kebbel, Mr., 9;
quoted, 129
Kenealy, Dr., 34
Lamb, Lady Caroline, 276
Lamington, Lord (Baillie Cochrane), 27, 124, 125
Landor, W. Savage, 291, n. 1
Lassalle, Ferdinand, 122
Layard, Sir Henry, 23, 224, 270
Leighton, Lord, 203
Lewis, Wyndham, Mr., 28
Lind, Jenny, Disraeli’s reference to, 324, n. 1
Liverpool, Lord, 83, n. 3, 132
Lockhart, 23, n. 4, 271
Londonderry, Lady, 271
Louis Philippe, King, 10, 236, 237, 238, n. 1
Luttrell, H., Disraeli on, 276
Lyndhurst, Lord, 22, 51, 268, 270, 288
Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, 4, 22, 203, 270;
romance, 301
Lytton, Lord, 221
Macaulay, Lord, 179, 209, 217, 256, 268
Malmesbury, Lord, 201
Manchester School, 50, n. 1, 200;
and see Utilitarianism
Manin, Daniel, 241, 320
Manners, Janetta, Lady John, 25
——, Lord John, 124, 126, 127
Manning, Cardinal, 177
Mario (née White), Madame, “Theodora,” 47, n. 1
Marx, Karl, 122
Mathews, C., 270
Melbourne, Lord, 14, n. 1, 198
Meredith, Mr. (Sarah Disraeli’s fiancé), 270
Metternich, 221, n. 1, 242
Meynell, Mr. W., 20
Midhat, Pacha, 227
Millais, Sir John, 34
Milnes, Monckton R. (Lord Houghton), 124, 125, 126
Milton, John;
political theocracy, 150–151;
“Venetian Constitution” and Dutch models, 151
Molesworth, 201
Mommsen, Professor, 66
Monarchy, 70, 84, 90, 96, 97;
Disraeli’s attitude to, 182;
prerogative, 184, 189–192;
many-sided emblem, 191;
King, the member for Empire, 192;
“Empress of India,” not bastard imperialism, 193–194;
with Church, make for civil order, 194
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 27
Montaigne, 296
Monteith, 124
Moore, T., 269
Morier, Sir R., 224
——, “Zohrab,” 270
Morley, Right Hon. J. (quoted), 31, 34, 35, 41, 52, 222, n. 1
Murphy, Serjeant, 125
Murray, John, 23, 268
Napier, editor, 23, n. 4, 270
Napoleon III., 10, 122, 236, 238, 271
Newdegate, Mr., 222, n. 2
Newman, Cardinal, 6, n. 3, 170, 172
New Zealand, constitution for, 201
Nietzsche, F., 59, 60
North, Lord, 213, n. 1
O’Connell, Daniel, 172, n. 1, 255 and n. 1
O’Connor, Feargus, 26, n. 1
——, Mr. T. P., 282, n. 1
Osborne, Bernal, 33
Owen, Robert, 122
Padwick, Mr., 27
Palmerston, Lord, 34, 200, 209, 210, 211, 213, n. 1, 222, n. 1, 227, 240, 242
——, Lady, 274, n.
Peel, Sir Robert, 4, 8, 14, 25, 38;
Disraeli’s real design in his overthrow, 40, 41, 48, 50, 56, 64, 83, n., 96;
disjointed labour, 112–114;
his beneficial reduction of tariff, 113, 131, n. 1;
“compensations” to land, 136;
(1843) in favour of preference to Canada and Canadian “retaliation,” ib., n. 1;
and Church education, 165, 167;
notes on monarchy, 185–187;
colonies, 201;
empire, 208;
his prophecy as to Disraeli, 217, 245;
alluded to, 278, 291, 293, 304
“Peelites,” 33, 35, n. 1, 39, 53, 295
Penn, Mr., 269
Perceval, 82
Persia, 207
Pitt, W., 5;
young Disraeli’s example, 24, 74, 129, 256, 259
Poland, Disraeli’s sympathy with, 243
Pope, A., 290, 307
Powles, Mr., 23 n. 2
Pozzo, 222, n. 1, 271
Press, The (Disraeli’s organ, 1853–59), 25, n. 1;
quoted, 7, n. 3, 33, n. 2, 39, 40, 53, 64, 181;
detached democracy, 202, 213, n. 1;
Turkey, 228;
political wit, 295
Prussia, 240
Pye (Laureate), 268
Reform Bill, 1832–36 ... 3, 8, 50, 51, n. 73, 77, 83;
effects of, 82–85, 89, 94, 98, 110, 116, 180, 184
—— ——, 1867, principles of, illustrated by former pronouncements, 78–80, 90 et seq., 94 et seq., 96, 98;
its drift and meaning, 107–111, 138, 262
Representative, The, 23, and n. 2
“Returns to Nature,” 59
Roebuck, N., 227
Rogers, S., 269, and n. 1, 293
Rowton, Lord, 9
Ruskin, J., quoted, 89, 303
Russell, Lord J., 14, n. 1, 34, 39, 40, 41, 56, 97, 98 (reform scheme of 1854) 100, (1860) 105, 132, 169;
colonies and democracy, 202;
empire, 208, 211, 213, n. 1
Russia, 204, 208;
and India, 215–216;
newness of pretensions to Constantinople, 226, 229;
the patriarchate, ib.;
Disraeli’s distinction between her “legitimate” and “illegitimate” ambitions, 229;
his policy towards her, early indicated and long pursued, 228–234;
Pan-Slavism, 232;
dismemberment, 241
Salisbury, Lord, 209, 232;
tribute of, to Disraeli, 326
San Stefano, Treaty of, 227, 229
Savile, George (Halifax), 209
Savonarola, Theocracy, 147
Scott, Sir Walter, 23, n. 4, 28, 121, 126, 268, 269, 270, n. 1., 302, 303
Selwyn, 274
Shaftesbury, Lord, 115;
alluded to, 294
Sheil, 4
Shelley, P. B., 16;
influence of, on Disraeli, 47, 223, n. 1;
Disraeli on, 275, n. 1;
alluded to, 293
Sheridans, the, 10, 271, 288, 296
Siddons, Mrs., 269
Soudan, 208, 215
South Africa, 137, 212–215
Southey, R., 269
Stafford, 125
Strangford, Lord, 10, 16, n. 1;
quoted, 62, 124
Sunderland, Lord, 73, 152
Swift, Jonathan, 6, n. 2, 18, 25, n. 1, 281, 290, 293, n. 1, 296, 300
Sykes, Lady, 277, n. 1
Taylor (“Platonist”), 270, n.
Tennyson, A., 124
Thackeray, 16, n. 2, 279, 297, 300, 302
Tocqueville, De, 7, 39, 66, 71;
on Church, 154;
monarchy, 180
Transvaal, 208, 214
Trelawny, 47
Turkey, Disraeli’s attitude and policy towards, 222–234;
Disraeli not pro-Islam, 222–223;
his policy traditional, 224;
real facts of Turkish question in Europe, 226–228;
Cyprus, 232
Urquhart, Mr., and “Sidonia,” 122, 272
Utilitarianism, 1, 12, 18, 87–89, 112, 113, 114, 115, 123, 206
Victoria, Queen, 10, 29, (1837) 185, 187;
Royal Titles Bill, 193–194;
Indian language and India, 194, 220–221, 270
Villiers, Mr. C., 112
Voltaire, quoted by Disraeli, 158, n. 3;
influence, 290
Waldegrave, Frances, Lady, 288
Walewski, 238
Walpole, Horace, 290
——, Mr. Spencer, 32
——, Sir R., 73, 92, n. 1, 95, 132, 148, 152
Wellington, Duke of, 240, n. 1
Westbury, Lord, 44
Wetherell, 82
Whalley, Mr., 38
Whigs, “New” and “Old,” 78–83, 90 et seq., 96, 99, 132, 143, 184, 213, n. 1, 262
White, Sir W., 226, 233
Whittlestone (valet), 24, n. 2
William III., 3, 148
Williams, Mrs. (of Torquay), 10, 29
Wiseman, Cardinal, 175
Wood, Sir Charles, 320
Wyndham, Sir W., 80, 82, 259
“Young England,” 14, 48, 115;
fully considered, 123–130;
and Maynooth, 128;
“Sanitas sanitatum,” 128–129;
fruits of, 130
Zulu War, 212–215

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