And the conflict and the struggle often kill them long before their time.

Was there ever anything much more tragic than the cry of M.Ferry for "le grand Repos," as he lay stifling from the weakening heart which the bullet of a political enemy and the slings and arrows of years of calumny and persecution had at last broken?
To any man with ordinary sensitiveness of nerves, a political career is a crucifixion--many times repeated.

But Mr.Chamberlain, probably, has not the ordinary sensitiveness of nerves.

Combative, masterful, with narrow and concentrated purpose, he pursues the game of politics--not without affliction, but with persistent tenacity and a courage that have rarely shown any signs of faltering or failing.
All these things must be granted to Mr.Chamberlain; but when I come to speak of him intellectually, I cannot see anything in him but a very perky, smart, glib-tongued "drummer," who is able to pick up the crumbs of knowledge with extraordinary rapidity, and give them forth again with considerable dexterity.

He speech on Uganda, so far as its thought and its phraseology were concerned, was on the level of the profound utterances with which Sir Ashmead Bartlett tickles and infuriates the groundlings of provincial audiences.