"Any man or any minister is a poor creature without them.

But of course there are limits beyond which pulpit influence should not go, and I am sure Dr Drummond has the clearest perception of them.

He seems to have been a wonderful fellow, Macdonald, a man with extraordinary power of imaginative enterprise.

I wonder whether he would have seen his way to linking up the Empire as he linked up your Provinces here ?" "He'd have hated uncommonly to be in opposition, but I don't see how he could have helped it," Lorne said.

"He was the godfather of Canadian manufacturers, you know--the Tories have always been the industrial party.