Gladstone : William Ewart (1809-98) who dominated the Liberal Party of England from 1868 till 1894 was prime minister four times, 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, & 1892-94. Opposed to the expansionist policy of the Conservatives which had led to the two Afghan wars, he appointed Lord Ripon as Viceroy in 1880. In 1888, Gladstone won over the INC by declaring: “It will not do for us to treat with contempt or even with indifference the rising aspirations of this great people.” In 1892, he passed Indian Councils Act which the INC claimed “yielded part-ly” to its 7-year old prayer for “reform & reconstruction” of the Imperial & Provincial Councils. Sri Aurobindo tried, again in vain, to warn INC that what Gladstone had actually yielded was “a loaf of plaster-of-Paris” with an assurance that his Govt. “would do its best to make plaster-of-Paris taste exactly like wheat.” But INC never stopped fawning over Gladstone, thanks to Eardley Norton having charmed them at its 10th annual session (1894) by quoting Gladstone’s statement of the Press Law: “Suddenly in the dark, in the privacy of the Council Chamber, I believe in answer to a telegram, without the knowledge of Parliament, without the knowledge of the country, a law [Lytton’s Vernacular Press Act] was passed totally extinguishing the freedom of the Native Press. I think a law such as that is a disgrace to the British Empire.” [Vide SABCL’s New Lamps for Old; S. Bhattacharya; P. Sitāramayyā’s History of the I.N.C., Vol. I, (1885-1935); & R.C. Majumdar’s Freedom Movement of India, Vol. X-II: 398]
... possible that some playful spirit has been enacting Mr. Gladstone to the too enthusiastic circle and has amused himself by elaborating those cloudy-luminous periods which he saw the sitters expected from the great deceased Opportunist. But we incline to the view that what we have got in this now famous spirit interview, is a small quantity of Gladstone, a great deal of Stead and a fair measure of the d... attention has been attracted and excitement created by the latest development of Mr. W. T. Stead's agency for communicant spirits which he calls Julia's Bureau. The supposed communications of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Beaconsfield and other distinguished politicians on the question of the Budget have awakened much curiosity, ridicule and even indignation. The ubiquitous eloquence of Lord Curzon has been set... dead as angels harping in heaven whose spotless plumes ought not to be roughly disturbed by human breath and of spiritual communication as a sort of necromancy, the spirit of Page 38 Mr. Gladstone being summoned from his earthy bed and getting into it again and tucking himself up comfortably in his coffin after Julia and Mr. Stead have done with him. We should have thought that in the bold ...
... would be too absurd even to dream of such a thing: and even if any of them were so impossibly rash, their constituencies would quickly teach them that they were sent to Parliament to support Mr. Gladstone and not to do justice to India. The vote is nothing but a tactical advantage; and yet on this flimsy basis we have chosen to erect the most imposing castles in the air. Yet if this were an isolated... souled and chivalrous race; we have Mr. Mclaren, Mr. Paul and many others pledged to champion the Congress movement: but well nigh all these are Liberal members who must give their support to Mr. Gladstone, whether he is inclined to do justice to India or no. It is evident that if we wish to obtain any real justice from the British Parliament we must secure the pledges not of individual Liberals but... but of the responsible heads of the party, and that is just what we are least likely to obtain. For we must remember that within the last 20 years the immense personal influence of Mr. Gladstone has been leavening and indeed remoulding English political life; and the tendency of that influence has been to convert politics into a huge market where statesmen chaffer for votes. In this political bazaar ...
... almost as much as for the way in which he has done it. He is not so great a man as his master Gladstone who was the biggest opportunist and most adroit political gambler democracy has yet engendered and yet persuaded himself and the world that he was an enthusiast and a man of high religious principle. But Gladstone was a genius and his old henchman is only a man of talent. Still Mr. Morley has done the... groans of the people and coin into gold the blood of patriots and the tears of widows and orphans,—when abusing his influence as a journalist, he lied to the British public about Arabi and urged on Gladstone to crush the movement of democratic and humanitarian Nationalism in Egypt, the movement in which all that is noble, humane and gracious in Islam sought fulfilment and a small field on earth for the ...
... for the way in which he has done it. It is true he is not so great a man as his master Gladstone, who was the biggest opportunist and most adroit political gambler democracy has till now engendered and yet persuaded the world that he was an enthusiast and a man of high religious feeling and principle. But Gladstone was a genius and his old henchman is only a man of talent. Still Mr. Morley has done the... groans of the people and coin into gold the blood of patriots and the tears of widows & when, abusing his position as an influential journalist, he lied to the British public about Arabi and urged on Gladstone to crush the movement of democratic and humanitarian Nationalism in Egypt, that movement in which all that is noble, humane and gracious in Islam sought to find fulfilment and a small field on earth ...
... our way to flatter Mr. Gladstone, a statesman who is not only quite unprincipled and in no way to be relied upon, but whose intervention in an Indian debate has always been of the worst omen to our cause. But then, we argued, people who had not been to England, could not be expected to discern the character of this astute and plausible man. We did more than flatter Mr. Gladstone; we actually condescended ...
... millenniums and China also. English politics is successful because they have always found one man or two who had the power to lead the minority of the ruling class. During Victorian period it was either Gladstone or Disraeli, and even when the party in power changes in England the other party that comes to power does not change things radically. They continue the same policy with a slight modification. ... millenniums and China also. English politics is successful because they have always found one man or two who had the power to lead the minority of the ruling class. During Victorian period it was either Gladstone or Disraeli, and even when the party in power changes in England the other party that comes to power does not change things radically. They continue the same policy with a slight modification. ...
... Conservative and Radical alike. No, we are not distorting or exaggerating. There it is, plump and plain, in the speech of the great British Radical, the Liberal philosopher, the panegyrist of Burke and Gladstone. It is the last word of England to India on the great issue of Indian self-government. What does Mr. Morley mean by British rule? Not the British connexion, not the continuance of India as a s ...
... has said: "Dazzled by the meretricious glitter of a tawdry imperialism, conspicuous members of Parliament are now trying to sponge from their slate the teachings of men Page 567 like Gladstone and Bright." It was reserved for Mr. Morley to tell all India what some of us had perceived long ago, that those teachings were never meant to be carried out in practice. Whoever is a scourge of ...
... liberalism running hand in hand with the practice of a bastard Imperialism which did the work of Satan while it mouthed liberal Scripture to justify its sins. Mr. John Morley, the principal spurrer-on of Gladstone when Egypt was enslaved, the Chief Secretary whom the Irish feared and distrusted, the Secretary of State who has begun in India what no Tory statesman could have lightly undertaken, the attempt to ...
... শেষে অনেক চেষ্টা ও পরিশ্রমের ফলস্বরূপ বৃটিশ সাম্রাজ্যের অধীনে স্বাধীনতা পাইব ৷ ভারতবর্ষের রাজপুরুষ যতই নিষ্ঠুর হৌক না কেন, কিন্তু ইংরেজ জাতি মহৎ ও সহৃদয় জাতি - তাঁহাদের মধ্যে Wilberforce, Howard, Gladstone প্রাভ্রুতি মহাত্মারা জন্মগ্রহণ করিয়াছে ৷ তাহারা আমাদিগের দুঃখ জানে না, কাদিলে শুনিবে ৷ (খণ্ডাংশ) ৩০শে আশ্বিন এই বৎসর ৩০ আশ্বিনের সমারােহ যেমন আগ্রহ, স্বাভাবিক উচ্ছাস ও একপ্রাণতার সহিত ...
... combine in a single voice such power and strength with so much sweetness! I had read about the orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, heard the eulogies of France's Mirabeau and Danton, of Burke and Gladstone of England. But it was truly an experience to have heard with one's own ears a human voice of their calibre. One cannot do without a mike today if one is to address an audience of a thousand. In those ...
... various comprehension and versatility of creative work of which only a few extraordinary intellects have been capable in Occidental history, but which in ancient India were common and usual. Mr. Gladstone was considered to be the possessor of an astonishing memory because he could repeat Page 88 the whole of Homer's Iliad, beginning from any passage suggested to him and flowing' on as ...
... various comprehension and versatility of creative work of which only a few extraordinary intellects have been capable in Occidental history, but which in ancient India were common and usual. Mr. Gladstone was considered to be the possessor of an astonishing memory because he could repeat the whole of Homer's Iliad, beginning from any passage suggested to him and flowing on as long as required; but ...
... and the physical is being expelled. In the chitra two fresh circumstances have reemerged, 1, chitra of objects, eg a sword, moneybag, spear etc, 2, chitra of familiar faces & scenes, eg the face of Gladstone & neck with collar. Page 224 The following lipis etc have been fulfilled or are in the course of fulfilment. (1) She has to change her conception of life. (Sortilege, early in the morning; ...
... cliffs? Buddhist art was created by men on whom the spiritual light had laid its hand, even if it had not in all instances gripped them wholly. The colorful enthusiasm and beautiful optimism which Gladstone Solomon saw in the Ajanta frescoes and considered the ne plus ultra of art-expression are not, as a psychoanalyst might explain, long-repressed life-instincts exploding into artistic ecstasy ...
... China also. English politics is successful because the English have always found one or two men who had the power to lead the minority ruling class. During the Victorian period, it was either Gladstone or Disraeli. And even when one party changes, the one that comes into power does not follow a radically changed policy. It continues the same policy with a slight modification. In France no government ...
... 286fn, 701-02, 71 1ff, 728, 733, 754, 762, 763 Ghose, Rash Behari, 225,226, 263-64,267, 270,292, 295 Ghoshal, Saraladevi (Chaudhurani), 62, 266, 282,287,530 Gladstone, W. E., 259 God, 157 Goethe, 43, 658 Gokak, V. K., 690 Gokhale, G. K., 206,216,225,227,264,267, 296, 341 ff, 349, 390 Gooch, G. P., 713 Gossain (Goswami) ...
... ...Oh yes, a literary philosopher-politician is the choicest work of God, - when he is not the most effective instrument in the hands of the Prince of Darkness. 30 Like his own master, Gladstone, Morley was an opportunist too - and he had "served the devil in the name of God with signal success on two occasions". First, when he championed the cause of the European financiers in Egypt, ...
... study of the problems in India. Hume, Froude, Kingsley or Freeman did not help him at all in taking a correct reading of events and their bearings. Neither Chatham nor Wilberforce nor even Mr. Gladstone stood by him with their enlightened statesmanship when he gave his seal of approval to the despotic acts of Sir Denzil Ibbetson. Chatham... rose from his sick-bed, was literally carried to the ...
... such faultless advantage as in these the crowning efforts of his old age. The usual defect of his oratory, an excess of language and rhetoric over substantial force, a defect which also limited Gladstone's oratory and made it the glory of an hour instead of an abiding possession to humanity, was absent from these speeches in England. For the first time the orator rose to the full height of a great ...
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