He related with unusual fervour that the effect of this personality was incomparable, a thing quite unique in his experience, something indeed incommunicable to those who had not met the man; yet, checking himself of a sudden, and as it were shaking himself free of a superstition, he added resolutely, "But I was reading some of his speeches in Hansard only the other day, and upon my word there's nothing in them!" One may well doubt the judgment of Mr.Chamberlain; but it remains very obviously true that the personal impression of Gladstone was infinitely greater than his ideas.

The tradition of that almost marvellous impression still prevails, but solely among a few, and there it is fading.

For the majority of men it is already as if Gladstone had never existed.
We should be wise, then, to examine the mind, and only the mind, of this remarkable prelate, and to concern ourselves hardly at all with the beauty of his life or the bewitchments of his character; for our purpose is to arrive at his value for religion, and to study his personality only in so far as it enables us to understand his life and doctrine.
Dr.Gore lives in a small and decent London horse which at all points in its equipment perfectly expresses a pure taste and a wholly unstudied refinement.

Nothing there offends the eye or oppresses the mind.

It is the dignified habitation of a poor gentleman, breathing a charm not to be found in the house of a rich parvenu.