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Excerpt from The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, M. P: A Literary and Political Biography; Addresses to the New Generation
It may be the distempered dream of a recluse, yet I cannot but think that England is now in some danger of forgetting those great moral laws. Were it once to be admitted that success covers every sin, and that genius and ability sanctify every crime, I see nothing to prevent our con stitution from being subverted, and the country from becoming such as would not be worth preserving. The disregard of the great moral element in political affairs is what has generally convulsed societies, destroyed constitutions, and ruined empires. If we do not learn this from the histories of Greece and Rome, if we do not espe cially learn it from the gloomy prospect whither soever we turn our eyes throughout continental Europe at this day, our learning is but foolishness. The gibbets of defunct constitutions are set up in every highway. The scarecrows of political im moralities shake in every breeze. If we fall, we fall with our eyes open; for all the warnings of the dead, and all the signs of the living, tell us to lcherish our good old English virtue, and walk in the ways of our ancestors.
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