. 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. yth and traditionof those races. His orthodox training in religion had been strengthenedand confirmed while at school. He was a typical Church-of-England youngman, doubting not at all the absolute correctness of the great Episcopalestablishment and the inerrancy of the doctrines and practices of which itwas the conservator
. 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. yth and traditionof those races. His orthodox training in religion had been strengthenedand confirmed while at school. He was a typical Church-of-England youngman, doubting not at all the absolute correctness of the great Episcopalestablishment and the inerrancy of the doctrines and practices of which itwas the conservator and visible expression. Any notion of Gladstones lifetaken as a whole which does not include as one of its dominant elementsthe strong religious conservatism and content of the man is thoroughly in-adequate and incorrect. For about two vears after leaving Eton, William E. Gladstone assignedhimself to the care of Dr. Turner, afterward Bishop of Calcutta. The rela-tion was a private one. Turner was a man of erudition, according to thestandard of the Church of England. He was precisely the kind of an in-structor to carry forward the education of the graduate Etonian in the pre-scribed line, and to fit him for admission to the universitv. Thither he was ETON AND ST. COLLEGE .AND BRIDGE, now tending. We have no exact information respecting the method pur-sued by Turner with his student; but we know that the instruction now in-cluded mathematics and the evidences of Christianity. For these branchesas well as languages and philosophy were required for admission to most ancient of the English universities was now selected by hisfather and himself for the completion of his academic training. ChristChurch College was chosen as the particular establishment. This institutionwas at the time the heart of the British conservatism. Here the ancientswere praised as against the moderns. Here the past was believed in asagainst the distrusted present and dange
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