Excerpt from William Ewart Gladstone: A Biographical Study
Several years ago I began thinking that no career in modern political Hfe abroad contained so many inspiring and excellent lessons for the youth and hope of America as that of William Ewart Gladstone. A series of lectures at the Armour Institute of Technology proved that a large number of people of every age and place in life were glad to hear the story of his life conceived and treated from an American point of view. These lectures have now been rewritten and many additions have been made to them from the large mass of material obtained during a visit to England which gave me an extraordinary opportunity for studying the great statesman and scholar. It has been a delightful task and I can hope for no richer reward for my labor and care than this, that Americans everywhere may find in reading this volume any smallest portion of such pleasure and interest as I have enjoyed in writing it.
While my point of view has been different, I have not hesitated to consult the previously composed accounts of this wonderful life. To the biographies of Mr. George W. E. Russell, Mr. G. Barnet Smith and Mr. Justin McCarthy, I have been especially grateful for many things whose value I cordially acknowledge. Besides these and an ever-present copy of Hansard, I have to mention in the same spirit of thankfulness, Mr. McCarthy's "History of Our Own Times," Mr. Molesworth's "History of England," and the "Nineteenth Century," as well as the "Edinburgh," "Contemporary" and "Fortnightly Review." I have expressed my obligations to other notable publications in the main body of the work.
The great soul has passed on; his genius, learning, eloquence, scholarship, humanity and piety are among the most splendid and indubitable treasures of the race.
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