A MOST ASTONISHING ENGLISH MAN.
The Spectator thinks that Mr Gladstone is certainly one of the most astonishing of Englishmen of this or any other era. At the age. of 81, when most men who survive so long are simply waiting for the clipping of the thread, and in the meantime, perhaps, drawing upon their- memories for the traces of a world that has passed away, Mr Gladstone not only leads an acHve political campaign, addressing imraeuse bodies of men, but is so little cast down by serious adventures and disappointments that he dashes off into side fields of enterprise, and engages in combat with men as adroit and as satirical as Prof. EEuxley, not only with no weak or faltering hand, but with a vigour and a sense of mastery that must excite the hearty admiration of all who read his reply. With the elasticity and cheeriness of youth he has been giving his whole mind to Prof. Huxley's attack upon the authority of the G-ospel account of the Gadarene miracle, examining German treatises, exposing the presurnptuousness of one of the latest of the German critics comparing Josephus with himself, and looking up the whole story of the political attitude of Rome towards the various portions of Palestine.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2263, 8 May 1891, Page 6
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209A MOST ASTONISHING ENGLISH MAN. Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2263, 8 May 1891, Page 6
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