Bryant, Arthur. English Saga, 1840‑1940 1945

9: the more squeamish and frugal morals of the money makers

51: the dark satanic mills [not much changed, as far as the undeveloped countries are concerned]

‑‑: laissez‑faire aux autres

98: "A precedent embalms a principle" [Disraeli]

100ff: on Ireland "The people of Ireland as a result of the curiously irresponsible policy which their English rulers ‑ partly through fear and partly through religious hatred ‑ had adopted towards them for two centuries, were ignorant, poor and degraded"

134f: Religion

153: The mind forged manacles [Blake]

165: In London & in urban England, in which the making of wealth had been elevated into a moral duty, poverty hung its head for shame .. it was despised. It was not for nothing that Marx was studying economic phenomena in the British capital

171: For Gladstone, the Budget's object was to exempt as large a portion of the nation as possible from the unwelcome obligation to contribute to the national financial burden

174: Not that Gladstone, the champion of tolerance, had the least objection to a Jew in his place

178: "The church is a sacred corporation for the promulgation & maintenance of certain Asiatic principles, which, although local in their birth, are of divine origin and of universal and external practical application" {Disraeli pref. to Coningsby]

181: "If no church comes forward, man will find altars & idols in his own heart & imagination to which to offer the fruits of his labor" [Disraeli]

182: "Our boasted progress has only been an advancement in a circle ... our new philosophy has brought us back to that old serfdom which it has taken ages to extirpate"

.. "A domestic oligarchy under the guise of Liberalism is denationalizing England"

210: The vital attribute of a home is that it should be permanent

214: The escape from personal responsibility into the corporation

215: The Companies Act of 1862 completed the divorce between Christian conscience and economic practice

218: The capitalist became a rentier. Socialism is but an attempt to transfer ownership of capital from the bureaucracy of corporations to the bureaucracy of government agencies

220: Divorced from economic liberty, political liberty has little meaning

221: The dictatorship of the state would be exercised on the behalf of the citizens (and run by Nosey Parker)

229: Charity, invested with the prim pince‑nez of the statistical bureaucrat

257: Ruskin the imperialist

276: An inevitable consequence of capitalist enterprise is the creation of bourgeois youth demanding university education and employment in a bureaucracy