John Morley: “G.—Unless a man has a considerable gift for taking things as they come, he may make up his mind that political life will…”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.