In a progressive country change is constant and the great question is not whether you should resists change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and the traditions of a people, or whether it should be a carried out in deference to abstract principles, and arbitrary and general doctrines.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In a progressive country change is constant and the great question is not whether you should resists change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and the traditions of a people, or whether it should be a carried out in deference to abstract principles, and arbitrary and general doctrines." in the context of "Benjamin Disraeli, in Disraeli: or, The Two Lives, p. 9" to mean that wisdom is timeless.