He was thus a man of well-cultured mind; he had been thoroughly disciplined to work; he was, moreover, a man of tact and energy, full of expedients, and possessed by a passion for business.

His father, urged by the young man's entreaties, at length consented, although not without misgivings, to resign into his hands the entire future control of The Times.
Young Walter proceeded forthwith to remodel the establishment, and to introduce improvements into every department, as far as the scanty capital at his command would admit.

Before he assumed the direction, The Times did not seek to guide opinion or to exercise political influence.

It was a scanty newspaper--nothing more, Any political matters referred to were usually introduced in "Letters to the Editor," in the form in which Junius's Letters first appeared in the Public Advertiser.

The comments on political affairs by the Editor were meagre and brief, and confined to a mere statement of supposed facts.
Mr.Walter, very much to the dismay of his father, struck out an entirely new course.