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This is a matter of cash and not of theory, for the tenants' rights are at this moment worth more than double the fee-simple of the land itself. What will the Gladstonian party who prate about Rack-rents say to this?" This seems a suitable opportunity for calling attention to the term Rack-rents, which in England is almost universally misunderstood.
Ireland would convert the world, but England stops her. High upon the gallows tree Swung the noble-hearted three. That is all I can remember, but it may serve to show that Irish Christianity is the real stingo, and no mistake. A Mullingaringian who wishes to be nameless desires to know particulars of the gorging capacity of the average Gladstonian elector.
He was "suckled in a creed outworn" of Eldonian Toryism, but soon exchanged it for Gladstonian Liberalism, and this, again, he suffused with an energetic spirit of State Socialism on which Mr. Gladstone would have poured his sternest wrath. A friend writes: "I don't remember that H. S. H., when he was an undergraduate, took much interest in politics more than chaffing others for being so Tory."
Cut down that British oak with your Gladstonian axe; lop him of his branches; divide him into logs; pile him up into a pyramid; put a match to his base; in short, make a bonfire of him; and what becomes of robust majesty? He is reduced to ashes, you say. Ah, yes, but what proportion of him?
On the other hand, careful and unprejudiced criticism will recognize that the chief opponent of his old age, Lord Salisbury, had imbibed something of his spirit, and under its influence did much to save the country from the excesses of Imperialism, while his follower, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, used the brief term of his power to reverse the policy of racial domination in South Africa and to prove the value of the old Gladstonian trust in the recuperative force of political freedom.
The man who was given a felling-axe immediately set about scraping up weeds, while the grinning warrior armed with a spade incontinently hacked at a hoary tree with Gladstonian ardour. "The stupid inertness of the puzzled negro," says B.-P., "is duller than that of an ox; a dog would grasp your meaning in one-half the time." But B.-P. did not despair of his men, neither did he ill-treat them.
I just went for him; and anyone overhearing would have thought me an itinerant pedlar of theology in the vulgar tongue, street preacher scorning all form as Papal; one would have thought me encased in Gladstonian armour of Disestablishment, to have heard my harangue.
It is not to be wondered at that Gladstonian finance was ever after looked at with well-grounded suspicion in Ireland. Another circumstance that has had a serious and lasting effect on Irish population has still to be mentioned.
Darwin was perfectly innocent of any intention of getting rid of mind, and did not, probably, care the toss of sixpence whether the universe was instinct with mind or no what he did care about was carrying off the palm in the matter of descent with modification, and the distinctive feature was an adjunct with which his nervous, sensitive, Gladstonian nature would not allow him to dispense.
The only thing to be done was to 'have confidence' in the invention much as a Gladstonian in difficulty invites the world to 'leave all to the skill of our great chief. But, alas! this would not do just now. The vessel was, in fact, unsteerable; the enormous weight of the engines at the bows prevented her obeying the helm.
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