“England, and the Eternal Voices, summon them; poor England never so needed them as now. Up, be doing everywhere: the hour of crisis has verily come! In all sections of English life, the god-made king is needed; is pressingly demanded in most; in some, cannot longer, without peril as of conflagration, be dispensed with.”

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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