...light, in the coming on of a new order, though a new order of things was at the door, and a new light had broken. He would not turn to see, nor bend to learn, if the political system of Somers, and Walpole , and the Pelhams, and their adherents was to pass away; if it were so, he himself was determined not to know it, but rather to be the last of that race of men. As Dante is the poet who sums up the ...