...inflated by fast-growing tendencies toward exaggeration of our concern in these matters, and even toward setting up fictitious interests in cases where none...of all, it is not to be denied that in what I have now been saying I do not represent the public sentiment. The nation is not at all conscious of being...

...Mission,' contributed to The Nineteenth Century for September of the present year. — WEG, December 1878.] interests of persons or classes so favoured when they...The people see that their House of Commons is the hardest-working legislative assembly in the world : and, this being so, they assume it is all right....

...persons or classes so favoured when they conn pete with those of the public ; and in none are they mora exacting, or more wakeful to turn this advantage to...The people see that their House of Commons is the hardest-working legislative assembly in the world : and, this being so, they assume it is all right....

...us by fast-growing tendencies toward exaggeration of our concern in these matters, and even toward setting up fictitious interests in cases where none...except ourselves, and such continental friends as practice upon our credulity and our fears for purposes of their own. Last of all, it is not to be denied...

...it to pursue, must by definition be behaving unpatriotically. They must logically be in league with 'such Continental friends as practise upon our credulity and our fears for purposes of their own'.36 It appeared, then, that Disraelian imperialism rested on a 'forward' policy in Asia (and in...