[26]. Curiously enough I have had occasion to repeat this remark this Spring (1894) in a controversy in the columns of the Catholic Times.
[27]. I had talked to him of our Ragged School at Bristol.
[28]. When our Bill was debated in Parliament in 1883, Mr. Gladstone left us, totally unaided, to the mercies (not tender) of Sir William Harcourt, who interrupted Mr. George Russell’s speech in support of our Bill by the remark that the demonstrations to students, to which he referred, were forbidden by the Vivisection Act. Sixteen certificates granting permission for the performance of such experiments in demonstration to students passed through his own office that year!
[29]. This opinion of the great Philanthropist deserves to be remembered with those of the many thinkers who have reached the same conclusion from other sides.
[30]. The General Secretary, then, and, I am happy to say, still,—of the Victoria Street Society.
[31]. The lines to which Lord Shaftesbury refers—“Best in the Lord” (since included in many collections) begin with the words:
“God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn.
Wouldst thou ask, why?
It is because all noblest things are born
In agony.