I am very sorry for him, but I know nothing so likely to rouse the landed aristocracy from their apathy, and to weaken their idolatry of Peel so much as this warning note of the joint operation of his free trade and restrictive currency laws.
Disraeli expresses his view on how specific economic policies could awaken the landed aristocracy from their political complacency.
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