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The novel rejects systematic social engineering in favor of individuated and domestic social relations. Morley’s fall is made complete by his association with Disraeli’s other cautionary professional, Baptist Hatton. An antiquarian whose vast and esoteric knowledge has given him an extensive clientele among the nation’s peers and would-be peers, Hatton places his expertise at the service of the highest bidder without regard for the moral claims of truth or right. Though he attempts to pass as a worker with the Gerards, he cannot persuade Sybil that his highly paid intellectual employment entitles him to claim the prerogatives of the champions of labor (248).
14 The problem in England, according to Morley, is not poverty itself but the dissociation that is reflected in the socioeconomic disparity. Although he can “spare no pang for the past,” Morley laments that the loss of the monasteries has left “no community in England; there is aggregation, but aggregation under circumstances which make it rather a dissociating than a uniting principle. . In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes” (64–65).
Disraeli’s apology for aristocracy operated in a similar fashion. 4 However, the apparent revival of a feudal sensibility in the aristocratic class actually resembles the professional ideal more than anything. Young England’s evocations of a romanticized medieval past by no means exclude, though they may mystify, the absorption of emergent rationalities. Young England aimed to transform the aristocracy to make it worthy and capable of the leadership of the nation, and that transformation involved selecting able and knowledgeable leaders, training them to discharge their responsibilities effectively, and cultivating in them a public service ethic.