STATESMANSHIP
The Manchester Guardian, in an editorial on the one hundredth anniversary of Gladstone’s birth (December 29), had the following fine appreciation of the great statesman’s international spirit:
To him the line of State boundaries formed no limit beyond which the writ of conscience ceased to run. He held national duties to be as sacred as personal duties, and judged national honor by the same standard as personal honor. From the debate on the opium war in 1840 to the last speech on behalf of the dying Armenians in 1896, Gladstone maintained this ideal in the face of Europe. He could not always carry it through against his own colleagues in government. No man at the head of affairs can have his way in all things; but he closed his public career by resigning office rather than associate himself with an increase of armaments which he judged unnecessary, and therefore injurious to the cause with which his name is indelibly associated.
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STATIC PROGRESS
Life is not always by motion; sometimes it is improved by waiting. The boat in the lock stands still in order to be lifted higher.
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Stationary Lives—See [Marking Time].
Stationary, The Effect of Things—See [Influence].
Statistics, Divorce—See [Divorce].