Excerpt from Walpole a Study in Politics
The following pages comprise the substance of a lecture delivered, at the invitation of the Syndicate, before the Fourth Summer Meeting of Cambridge University Extension Students in August 1893. Two great critics have recently expounded at length the importance of Walpole's career; but, if I may venture to say so, their very greatness appears to have rendered their interpretation dangerously subjective. They seem to have attributed to Walpole a subtlety and a foresight which belong rather to their own ripe judgments than to his practical needs. I have tried to look at matters solely from Walpole's standpoint, and this must be my excuse for venturing on a short account of a career fraught with the greatest consequences to English politics.
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