Let Them Take Advantage Of This Hour Of Prosperity Calmly To
Examine And Deeply To Comprehend The Character Of That Institution In
Which Their Best Interests Are Involved, And Which For Them May Afford
A Relaxation Which Brings No Pang, And Yields Information Which May
Bear Them To Fortune.
It is to them I appeal with confidence, because I
feel I am pleading their cause - with confidence, because in them I
repose my hopes.
When nations fall, it is because a degenerate race
intervenes between the class that created and the class that is doomed.
Let them then remember what has been done for them. The leaders of
their community have not been remiss in regard to their interests. Let
them remember, that when the inheritance devolves upon them, they are
not only to enjoy but to improve. They will one day succeed to the high
places of this great community; let them recollect those who lighted
the way for them; and when they have wealth, when they have authority,
when they have power, let it not be said that they were deficient in
public virtue and public spirit. When the torch is delivered to them,
let them also light the path of human progress to educated man."
As time went on, I had many interviews and conversations with Mr. and
Mrs. Disraeli. I learned to appreciate, more and more, that the
oddities attributed to the latter were mainly of society manufacture;
while her fine qualities had been kept in the background by the over-
shadowing ability, and prominence, of her husband.
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