No doubt many of the rich aristocracy spent idle days of pleasure-seeking with the comfortable conviction that they could discharge their duties to society by merely existing, since their luxury made work and the more they indulged themselves the more happy and profitable employment would their many dependents enjoy.

The eighteenth century was, however, a wonderful epoch in England.

Agriculture became a new thing under the leadership of great landowners like Lord Townshend and Coke of Norfolk.

Already was abroad in society a divine discontent at existing abuses.

It brought Warren Hastings to trial on the charge of plundering India.