It's amazing how few people actually know the deep enough contours of this in that era.
There was a lot of acrimony within the tories in the 19th century as urbanisation and industrialisation happened.
The tories supported a large amount of policies that sought to stem this current and try retain as much of the agricultural population as possible....to prop up their own political power and bargaining, by essentially having as little market opportunity and scope for the worker population to seek maximum return for their labour.....and forcing them to put social constraints (and the argued "better" social order and way of things) first.
Over time they were forced to adapt to the reality and introduce more compromise and nuance in their positions but it took a really long time. i.e Conserve things that appealed to enough folks regarding politics of this newer reality (that had now been much influenced by the progressives and liberals w.r.t industrialisation, freer markets, urbanisation)....after it was realised the old situation would simply not return....and new generations had simply now been born and bred in the cities and freer labour and freer market situation.
But in that interim they always promoted and appealed to certain nativist, tribalist, ruralist sentiment (to bring old order of serfdom they could lord over) that had its bleed over into the colonial (anti humanist) and mercantile (anti free market) mindset for the foreign possessions.
i.e Social order by stagnant social stratification....dont think and reason for yourselves, we'll do that for you, we know whats best for you.
This phenomenon of the interim continues in its own way today w.r.t conservatism broadly (or in some measure depending on your perspective), it is most studied w.r.t the developed world generally though.
People actually dont study where the word conservative comes from.... I've lost track of how many people blindly say conservative = free market/capitalism (and vice versa that progressives and liberals are anti free market or marxists or whatever else) and that they are the one and the same, when these realities and compromises have much longer timescales to look at. Free markets and capitalism were at one point quite anti-conservative (new + progressive) phenomenon especially in their application, institutional contours and political heritage which all needed time to form (and for later conservatives to reference as the starting basis to then argue to conserve).
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