Gladstone let drop what for him seems the remarkable judgment that “Man as a type has not improved since those great times; he is not so big, so grand, so heroic as he has been.” This, the reader will agree, demands a good deal of consideration.
Morley quotes Gladstone's reflection on the perceived decline of humanity compared to past centuries.
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