Signs of Their TimesFrom the 1820s through the 1840s, debate raged over what Thomas Carlyle famously termed the Condition of England Question. While much of the debate focused on how to remedy the material sufferings of the rural and urban working classes, for three writers in particularWilliam Cobbett, Thomas Carlyle, and Benjamin Disraelithe times were marked by an even more pervasive crisis that threatened not only the material lives of workers, but also the very