Masses and Classes
Ferdinand Mount: Gladstone, 17 February 2005
The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics
by David Bebbington.
Oxford, 331 pp., £55, March 2004,0 19 926765 0 Show More
by David Bebbington.
Oxford, 331 pp., £55, March 2004,
“... What is Gladstone trying to tell us? Through the matted undergrowth of his prose, with its vatic pronouncements, its interminable subordinate clauses, its ponderous hesitations and protestations, its sudden whimsical excursions and conjectures, something – not a message exactly but not a philosophy either, perhaps the only word would be a mind – is struggling to declare itself ... ”