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She was buried by the side of her husband and of two little grandchildren, Fitzjames's infant daughter and son, who had died before her. I now turn to the work in which Fitzjames was absorbed almost immediately after his return to England. He had again to take up his profession.
Stokes's absence on leave for the last year of Fitzjames's service, his place was taken by Henry Cunningham. The member of Council and the secretary drew almost all the bills required. It must be noticed that proposals for legislation were not initiated by the department itself.
I need hardly say that Newman's report of the conversation would probably have differed from this, which gives a rough summary from Fitzjames's later recollections. I do not hesitate, however, to express my own belief that it gives a substantially accurate account; and that the reason why Newman had nothing to say is simply that there was nothing to be said.
According to a 'working man' who writes to the paper, Mr. Jenkins virtually proposes that the industrious part of the working classes are to support the children of the lazy, idle, and improvident a principle which many people now seem inclined to regard as defensible. Fitzjames's accounts of his own speeches are to the same purpose.
Their laissez-faire theory, for example, is really a version of his own favourite tenet, 'if a man will not work, neither let him eat. Although Fitzjames's views changed, he could never become a thorough Carlylean; and after undertaking to write about Carlyle in Mr.
The letter shows, I think, under the rather elaborate phraseology, both the perspicuity with which the father had estimated his son's talents and the strong sympathy which bound them together. The reference to Fitzjames's 'want of faith in himself' is significant.
But from Fitzjames's point of view the judgment was natural enough. The two men could never come into cordial relations, and the ultimate reason, I think, was what I should call Mill's want of virility. He might be called 'cold, not as wanting in tenderness or enthusiasm, but as representing a kind of philosophical asceticism.
I think that Fitzjames was greatly superior in vigour of expression; but the argument is not one to be answered by a single Yes or No. I cannot even touch such controversies here. My only desire is to indicate Fitzjames's intellectual attitude. It is sufficiently manifest in these articles. He argues that Ward's position is really suicidal.
Fitzjames's first action was to write a letter to the persecutor expressing in the most forcible English the opinion that the gentleman's proper position was not among the respectable but at one of her Majesty's penal settlements.
Gladstone's Government, one of Fitzjames's rivals represented the stolid middle-class prejudices, and a second the unctuous philanthropic enthusiasm, which he had denounced with his whole force in 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. No combination could have been contrived which would have set before him more clearly the characteristics of the party of which he still considered himself to be a member.
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