. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... Richard Cobden RICHARD COBDEN WHAT I contend is that England is to-day so situated in everyparticular of her domestic and foreign circumstances, that byleaving other governments to settle their own business and fight outtheir own quarrels, and by attending to the vast and difficult affairsof her own enormous realm, and the condition of her people, she willnot only be setting the world an example of noble morality, whichno other nation is so happily free to set, but she will be followingthe very course which the maintenance of her own greatn
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... Richard Cobden RICHARD COBDEN WHAT I contend is that England is to-day so situated in everyparticular of her domestic and foreign circumstances, that byleaving other governments to settle their own business and fight outtheir own quarrels, and by attending to the vast and difficult affairsof her own enormous realm, and the condition of her people, she willnot only be setting the world an example of noble morality, whichno other nation is so happily free to set, but she will be followingthe very course which the maintenance of her own greatness mostimperatively demands. It is precisely because Great Britain is sostrong in resources, in courage, in institutions, in geographical posi-tion, that she can, before all other European powers, afford to bemoral, and to set the example of a mighty nation walking in the pathsof justice and peace. COBDEN—Speech in Parliament. GREAT REFORMERS ICHARD COBDEN never hadany chance in life ^ He wasborn in an obscure hamlet ofWest Sussex, England, in1804 Ji His father was a poorfarmer, who lost his freeholdand died at the top, -whippedout, discouraged when the ladwas ten years old. RichardCobden became a porter, aclerk, a traveling salesman, amill-owner, a member of par-liament, an economist, a humanitarian, a statesman,a reformer. Up to his thirteenth year he was chieflyinterested in the laudable task of making a living—getting on in the world. During that year, and seem-ingly all at once and nothing first, just as bubbles dowhen they burst, he beheld the problem of businessfrom the broad vantage ground of he did not burst, for his dreams were spun out oflifes realities, and to-day are coming true; in factmany of them came true in his own time J^ RichardCobden ceased to be provincial and became universaLQ He saw that commerce instead of being merely aclutch for personal gain was the chief fa
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