Benjamin Disraeli,
Sybil — Book 3/Chapter 5
“ Were I a prince I know no career that I should deem so great.""But Stephen says no," said Gerard: "he says that these great men have never made use of us but as tools; and that the people never can have their rights until they produce competent champions from their own order.""But then Stephen does not want to recall the past," said Sybil with a kind of sigh; "he wishes to create the future.""The past is a dream," said Gerard. ”
Benjamin Disraeli,
Sybil — Book 3/Chapter 5
“ Even Stephen is against physical force, with all his odd fancies.""All very true," said Gerard smiling with good nature; "but all the same when I was coming home a few days ago, and stopped awhile on the bridge and chanced to see myself in the stream, I could not help fancying that my Maker had fashioned these limbs rather to hold a lance or draw a bow, than to supervise a shuttle or a spindle.""Yet with the shuttle and the spindle we may redeem our race," said Sybil with animation, "if we could only form the minds that move those peaceful weapons. Oh! ”
Benjamin Disraeli,
Sybil — Book 3/Chapter 5
“ Of the infants born in Mowbray, more than a moiety die before the age of five.""And yet," said Egremont, "in old days they had terrible pestilences.""But they touched all alike," said Gerard. "We have more pestilence now in England than we ever had, but it only reaches the poor. You never hear of it. Why Typhus alone takes every year from the dwellings of the artisan and peasant a population equal to that of the whole county of Westmoreland. This goes on every year, but the representatives of the conquerors are not touched: it is the descendants of the conquered alone who are the victims." ”
