This was one of the many springs in the old regime that fed the swelling and vehement stream of passion for social equality, until at length when the day came, it made such short and furious work with the structure of envious partition between citizen and citizen.
Morley discusses the historical roots of the desire for social equality during the old regime.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
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