ABSTRACT
In his book Sybil; Or The Two Nations (1845), Benjamin Disraeli identified the cultural shifts that were occurring in Victorian England and succinctly summed them up in a metaphor that would become popular:
Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manner, and are not governed by the same laws. 1
