text:  Moreover as we have hinted the impression it conveys is in relation to politics eminently Conservative; for besides that he has exposed with peculiar vigour the utter inadequacy of the movement or liberal party to preside over the organization of society there is nothing more calculated to render us content with an _empirical_ condition of tolerable well-being than the exhibition (and such we think is here presented to us) of a strong mind palpably at fault in its attempt to substitute out of its own theory of man a better foundation for the social structure than is afforded by the existing unphilosophical medley of human thought