. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. reviewer adds that if Mr. Gladstone doesnot prove this proposition, his whole argument vanishes away. This iscorrectly stated. Gladstones book does attempt to support the propositionthat the propagation of religious truth is one of the great ends, if not thegreatest end, of human government, and that therefore the establish
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. reviewer adds that if Mr. Gladstone doesnot prove this proposition, his whole argument vanishes away. This iscorrectly stated. Gladstones book does attempt to support the propositionthat the propagation of religious truth is one of the great ends, if not thegreatest end, of human government, and that therefore the established reli-gious order in England is, so to speak, one of the functions of the Britishgovernment, to be administered with as much care as if it were the army,or the polls, or the system of coast defenses, or the police, or the post, or thecolonial administration of the empire. no LII-E AND TIMi:S OF WILLIAM E. GLAUSTONIi. We will append two or three critical quotations from the book in whichMr. Gladstone expresses in his own loft\ and at times somewhat vaguemanner the bottom doctrines which he would defend and make permanentin the polity of Great Britain. One of his arguments is to show that onlycommunicants of the Church of England ought to be selected for office, and. LORD MACAULAY.(Phologra/th by ir Fox!) that all others may be rightfully excluded. On this hypothesis he builds upthe following argument: We may state the same proposition in a more general form, in whichit surely must command universal assent. Wherever there is power in theuniverse, that power is the property of God, the King of that universe—his property of right, however for a time withholden or abused. Now thisproperty is, as it were, realized, is used according to the will of the owner, FIRST APPEARANCE IN LITERATURE. Ill when it is used for the purposes he has ordained, and in the temper ofmercy, justice, truth, and faith, which he has taught us. But those principlesnever can be truly, never can be p
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