Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . s place was taken by Palmerston. What the country really wanted was to have a strong man at thehead of affairs. It had no confidence in Lord Aberdeen ; it did believein Lord Palmerston ; and as soon as he was at the head of affairs, confi-dence was restored. Nevertheless the House was determined to hav
Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . s place was taken by Palmerston. What the country really wanted was to have a strong man at thehead of affairs. It had no confidence in Lord Aberdeen ; it did believein Lord Palmerston ; and as soon as he was at the head of affairs, confi-dence was restored. Nevertheless the House was determined to haveits commission of inquiry, and Mr. Gladstone and other Peelites, whohad at first retained office under Lord Palmerston, decided to commission did much good ; and its report should be a warning toGovernments for all time. Its inquiries showed distinctly that the mis-management complained of was to be traced, not so much to the faultsof individuals, as to the absurd system by which Great Britain had allowedthe machinery for making war to grow rusty and obsolete in time ofpeace, and also to the foolish arrangement by which sub-division ofresponsibility was carried so far as to make it almost impossible to saywho was really to blame for any particular mistake or omission. Without. RUTHERFORD HAYES
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