Excerpt from The Tory Tradition: Bolingbroke, Burke, Disraeli, Salisbury It became then a welcome task to an Englishman to attempt a rather different account of Toryism in a country which in all the great things of life is essentially conservative. More than this, as I sat down to think out the real meaning of Toryism and the best way to present it to an audience of strangers, I became aware of advantages in this course of action which I had not perceived before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.