Note 95 — Chapter IV · CHURCH AND THEOCRACY

A very favourite idea of Disraeli’s, and the source of his disbelief in any “equality of man.” Cf. “All is race” in Coningsby, and the passage already quoted in my second chapter from Contarini Fleming. So again in the Preface to Lothair, “One of the consequences of the Divine government of this world, which has ordained that the sacred purposes should be effected by the instrumentality of various human races, must be occasionally a jealous discontent with the revelation entrusted to a particular family.... The documents will yet bear a greater amount both of erudition and examination than they have received; but the Word of God is eternal, and will survive the spheres.”