To identify the interests of the richest and most powerful class with the interests of the church, of the army, and of a given system of civil government, was indeed to give to that class the strongest motives for leaving the existing social order undisturbed.
Morley asserts that aligning the interests of the powerful with established institutions can hinder social change.
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But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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