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Updated: October 10, 2025
And, indeed, where shall we find a better metaphor for party-government than this of the tide, of the ebb and flow of political power remorseless, inevitable, regardless of those who, tossed high on the stream, imagine they direct it? And in this metaphor the People must play Moon, like the clown in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." But, as Juliet says: O swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon.
When the Duke of Wellington, seeing the breaking up of the old system because of the triumph of the Whig measure, asked the question, "How is the King's government to be carried on?" he meant, "How will it be possible to maintain the old aristocratical system of party-government?"
Here again he has only imbibed the temper of the nation. Perhaps it is due to our political activity and the system of party-government that the spirit of party seems to have taken such a deep root in the English mind. He takes them up with more of practical vigour and energy than breadth of reflection. There is a contagion of party-spirit in the air.
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