The progress of the famous plant has been
something like the progress of truth;
suspected at first, though very palatable to
those who had the courage to taste it; resisted
as it encroached; abused as its popularity
seemed to spread; and established in its
triumph at last, in cheering the whole land
from the palace to the cottage, only by the
slow and restless efforts of time and
its own virtues.
Isaac D’Israeli