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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


In ten years Victorian history was twice deflected by a divorce. The ...

In ten years Victorian history was twice deflected by a divorce.

The fall of Parnell left Ireland with a dead god instead of a leader, and the fall of Duke left Liberalism without a brain.

But the history of great nations is not written in the minuscule of personal incident, and if we could set against each other, in a Melian debate, the spirit of Conservative and Liberal England, we should hear an arguement proceeding thus.

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'We still demand, as we always have demanded, that wherever privilege exists, ...

'We still demand, as we always have demanded, that wherever privilege exists, it shall be abated, in such degree and measure as the welfare of the State requires. It was we w

The evolution of Euripides from a pro-Boer into a League of Nations ...

The evolution of Euripides from a pro-Boer into a League of Nations lecturer began about the same time.