If any country is to have a personage occupying such a position, it is well to have a considerable number of the same class, to yeomanise such an aristocracy--to make each feel that he has his peers in fifty others.

Otherwise an isolated duke would have to live and move outside the pale of human society; a proud, haughty entity dashing about, with not even a comet's orbit nor any fixed place in the constellation of a nation's communities.

It is of great necessity to him, independent of political considerations, that there is a House of Peers instituted, in which he may find his social level; where he may meet his equals in considerable numbers, and feel himself but a man..