When the Liberal government led by Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli took office, and the new government decided to " dish the Whigs " and " take a leap in the dark " to take the credit for the reform.
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Not only that, he said in a talk last spring, he felt he needed someone whose qualifications to do so would be instantly apparent to voters, who might otherwise feel, because of Dole's age, that a vote for him was a leap in the dark.
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With this was to be combined a whole system of education, relief of the poor, etc . Louis XVI recoiled from this as being too great a leap in the dark, and such a fundamental difference of opinion between king and minister was bound to lead to a breach sooner or later.
