By Michael Bentley
Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) is now a topic of extreme ancient realization. this significant examine strikes clear of traditional biography and offers an unique portrait of the psychological international inhabited by means of past due Victorian Conservatives on the time whilst their world-view used to be coming lower than critical pressure. on the centre of the image is the third Marquess of Salisbury, yet Lord Salisbury's international doesn't easily inform the tale of his existence and politics. as a substitute, it asks delicate questions about how the political, highbrow and spiritual environments of the overdue Victorian interval looked as if it would considered one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his rapid entourage in a large panorama of relationships, perceptions and difficulties. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions approximately time and area, estate and society, faith and the nation, and the earlier and the long run - the very language within which they expressed themselves.
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Indeed the sole cachet that he could claim for Arlington Street was that it lay on the right side of Oxford Street, amending for those years of penury in Fitzroy Square after his father cut him off and society ceased to call. Doubtless some of the loathing he felt for the super®ciality of London `society' had its roots in that time when the chimney-piece remained empty of cards. London he saw as the home of parliament and the Queen: a place of intellectual labour and constitutional dignity. He could well do without the nouveaux riches of Belgravia with their slick stories, dubious jokes and bad wine.
All these men, all the great lights of the church since 1662, were by the sweeping denunication of his hon. Friend [Buxton] accused without exception of having been compelled to tamper with their consciences . . That long experience was the best answer to the statements that had been made. They might depend upon it that an experience of two hundred years was a better guide than the experience of his hon. Friends the Members for Canterbury or Plymouth. Oxford life was but three years in duration, and it was the experience of three years against that of two hundred.
3 1 2 3 T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (1944). I have commented on this style of speculation more generally in `Liberalism and Nationalism in Britain' in S. Groenveld and M. J. ), Under the Sign of Liberalism: Varieties of Liberalism in Past and Present (Zutphen, Netherlands, 1997), pp. 78± 92. Disraeli to Stanley, 3 Oct. 1850, Derby MSS 1759/51. This Lytton, the novelist, was father of Salisbury's Lord Lytton, who in¯uenced (and provoked) much thought about India, Afghanistan and Russia in the 1870s.
