. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . e must ultimately bedecisive, and to its reasonable demands Charless shortsighteddiplomacy and the Parliaments selfish bigotry would not last Cromwell was forced by the second Civil War to acknow-ledge that the Commons must be overridden and the King must beremoved, before any peace could come to the kingdom. There hadbeen no hypocrisy in his previous perplexity and reluctance to takethe last drastic and irrevocable step, but there was also no hesitancyin the execution of his decision once taken, no shrinking before itsinca
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . e must ultimately bedecisive, and to its reasonable demands Charless shortsighteddiplomacy and the Parliaments selfish bigotry would not last Cromwell was forced by the second Civil War to acknow-ledge that the Commons must be overridden and the King must beremoved, before any peace could come to the kingdom. There hadbeen no hypocrisy in his previous perplexity and reluctance to takethe last drastic and irrevocable step, but there was also no hesitancyin the execution of his decision once taken, no shrinking before itsincalculable significance. Having destroyed, it was then Cromwellstask to rebuild. In Ireland and in Scotland he established a pre-carious peace with the sword, but in England he sought in vain toreconcile liberty and order. The paramount need was the suppres-sion of anarchy, and this seemed impossible, as long as the civil andthe military elements were in bitter hostility. Thus Cromwell waspushed steadily towards a cul-de-sac. His attempts to rule with a free. OLIVER CROMWELLFrom the miniature by Samuel Cooper belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch,
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