Note 48 — Chapter I · DISRAELI’S PERSONALITY

It should be remembered that in the brilliant characterisation of Bolingbroke in Disraeli’s Letter to Lord Lyndhurst, he says, “that despite the Whig affectation of popular sympathies, and the Tory admiration of arbitrary power, Bolingbroke penetrated appearances, and perceived that the choice really lay ‘between oligarchy and democracy.’”