They would have him the craziest muddler and the most easily swindled imbecile outside Fleet Street--where alone wisdom is to be found.

How one would enjoy a verbatim report of the cross-examination of these critics _in their own newspapers_.
I will endeavour to show that Lord Inverforth is not quite so consummate an ass as his critics would have the public to believe, but rather one of the very greatest men, in his own particular line, who ever came to the rescue of a chaotic Government.
Let me not be supposed to insist that a great man of business is a great man.

I regard Lord Inverforth as an exceedingly great man of business, one of the very greatest in the world, and this fact I hope to make clear in a few lines, but I do not regard him as a national hero in the wider sense of that term.

He has too many lacks for that, and some of them essential to true and catholic greatness.
He could never fire the imagination of a people, nor does he convey a warm and generous feeling to the heart.

His enthusiasms are all of a subdued nature.