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Birrell made one of the happiest and best speeches of the debate. Now and then, the epigram was perhaps a little too polished the wit perhaps a trifle too subtle for the House of Commons. But careful preparation always involves this; and every man must prepare until he is able to think more clearly on his legs than sitting down.
Thus it seems that Carlyle and Birrell would have it that courage and humility have something to do with "explanation" and that it is not "a respect for all" a faith in the power of "innate virtue" to perceive by "relativeness rather than penetration" that causes Emerson to withhold explanation to a greater degree than many writers. Carlyle asks for more utility, and Birrell for more inspiration.
"The British mind moves slowly," said Birrell, the Irishman. "Now, if this had happened in my native land " He was interrupted by the screech of a siren, and a demon car that spurned the road, that splattered them with pebbles, tore past and disappeared in the darkness.
Birrell omits to tell us that Charlotte wrote "had any evil consequences followed a prolonged stay, I should never have forgiven myself". You are to imagine that Charlotte could have forgiven herself perfectly well, for Charlotte "did not care for children". Mrs. Oliphant does not echo that cry. She was a woman and knew better.
Owing to the security of private practice involved, there is a fierceness of competition for these appointments out of all proportion to their financial value. The elections are made by the Guardians, and it is a fact so notorious as even to be acknowledged by Mr. Birrell that flagrant canvassing and bribery are a common feature of these elections.
Gladstone wrote in 1890, "can anyone say we should have treated Ireland as we have done had she lain not between us and the ocean, but between us and Europe?" In introducing the scheme of mild Home Rule termed the Councils Bill in 1907, Mr. Birrell prefaced it with the remark that "separation was unthinkable save in the event of some great world cataclysm."
This, however, was very objectionable to them; and one of their members asked Mr. Birrell in the House of Commons whether the pamphlets could not be suppressed. Mr. Birrell made the curious reply that he would be very glad if Lord Ashtown were stopped, but that he did not see how to do it.
This meant that during the whole of the year 1906 and a part of 1907 the proposal of the new Irish Bill was under discussion with the Irish leaders. The course of these deliberations was undoubtedly a disappointment. Mr. Bryce was replaced by Mr. Birrell as Chief Secretary, but the scheme still fell short of what Redmond had hoped to attain.
Birrell said: "The spirit of what to-day is called Sinn Feinism is mainly composed of the old hatred and distrust of the British connection ... always there as the background of Irish politics and character"; and, after recalling that Cardinal Newman had observed the same state of feeling in Dublin more than half a century before, Mr. This disloyal spirit, which struck Newman, and which Mr.
Birrell once how the juste milieu was to be found for an enterprising person between running after the great men of the day and missing them; and he said: "I would advise you to live among your superiors, Margot, but to be of them." Con was one of the few women of whom it could be said that she was in an equal degree a wonderful wife, mother, sister and friend.
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