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TO

The Memory of

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

THE GREATEST ENGLISHMAN SINCE CROMWELL

Who, of lofty Christian character, and pre-eminent abilities developed under favoring circumstances, devoted a life of unceasing, arduous toil,—ever among matters of great moment—

not himself;
not to his own interests;
but to the good of others;

yet who daily so intelligently trained his body also that he was able to maintain a true equilibrium between mind and body; and so to keep both in consummate working-order far on to a ripe old age,—

THIS BOOK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED