John Morley: “The answer is that Gordon seized the imagination of England, and seized it on its higher side.”

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.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.