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204. Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy: Lecture XII 01 May 1921, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Then we see the right to vote increasingly extended, the Tories calling for the support of a man, who only a short while ago certainly would not have been counted among them, Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, who was of Jewish extraction, an “outsider.”21 We watch the Upper House finally becoming a shadow and the year 1914 approaching in which a quite new England emerges.
21. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804–1881, British Prime Minister from 1868 until 1880.22.