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John Morley: “Gladstone’s policy is coming to be used as the concrete expression of a whole system of thought, to mean something for…”

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Gladstone’s policy is coming to be used as the concrete expression of a whole system of thought, to mean something for itself, and something widely different from either the policy pursued by whigs, or the policy attributed to Lord Palmerston.
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John Morley

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Morley notes the significance of Gladstone's policy as a distinct ideological framework.

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