Mr. Gladstone addressing the House
Everything points, I repeat, to the advance of democratic ideas in all directions. For instance, most of the Civil Service is now open to competitive examination; the lads of the Polytechnics will get these appointments. There are some branches not yet open; these will also be thrown open. The law and medicine now require a five years’ training, at a cost of over a thousand pounds; these professions will be thrown open to the lads who can pass the examinations. It is now impossible for a poor lad to enter the army or the navy; by changes in the management and daily life of a regiment or a ship, poor lads will be enabled to win commissions.
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A BREAKFAST PARTY AT OSBORNE
PRINCESS MARIE VICTORIA OF EDINBURGH
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF EDINBURGH
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF EDINBURGH
THE QUEEN
PRINCESS ALICE OF HESSE
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT
PRINCESS HENRY OF BATTENBERG
PRINCESS IRENE OF HESSE
These changes for the lads and working-men I foresee very clearly. With regard to the position of women I also foresee important changes. At the present moment there is a wild and insensate game of “grab” going on. Women admit of no restrictions, they claim everything. They are not satisfied with the whole intellectual field, they would overrun the field of physical labour. They take the men’s work at half the pay, they drive the men out of the country, they remove from themselves the possibility of marriage, they deny the country that increase of population which the country has a right to expect. This folly will presently cease; calmer and more sensible counsels will prevail. It will be recognised that Nature assigns limitations and prescribes certain kinds of work for men, and certain other kinds for women. Above all, it will be remembered that if a man owes himself to his country as a soldier or a workman, so a woman owes to her country the duties of maternity.
SIR J. E. MILLAIS, F.R.A.
SIR E. J. POYNTER, F.R.A.
G. F. WATTS, R.A.
LORD LEIGHTON
J. M. W. TURNER, R.A.
JOHN RUSKIN
SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A.
REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS OF THE REIGN