For Whiggery, rightly understood, is not a political creed but a social caste.
The Whiggery of Bow Street would perhaps rise up against this wisdom.
But those opinions and those tactics have been mere accidents, though perhaps inseparable accidents, of Whiggery.
Whiggery, in short, was nothing but Liberalism qualified by interest.
But however deeply Smollett was attached to his country, it was merely a sentimental attachment, akin to his Whiggery.
