Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford : a memoir / by J.B. Atlay ... with portraits and illustrations.

  • James Beresford Atlay
Date:
1903
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Credit: Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford : a memoir / by J.B. Atlay ... with portraits and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MR. GLADSTONE 1901] for the rich men of the towns, and then that by degrees there was a movement outwards to get deeper water. I have not found much that is original or striking, but it is one of the works that seem to have the tide in their favour, and that ought to be found in any library which goes back to the great question of origines. We have lately returned from Penmaenmawr, and I can give an excellent account of my wife. Let me recommend the Blachford Letters; on the other hand the padding in Selborne’s is something fearful, it will get down to 25. a volume. Yours truly, W. E. Gladstone. This was almost the end of his correspondence with Mr. Gladstone. During the previous year the veteran statesman, now finally removed from party strife, had been absorbed in the preparation of his Studies on Butler. The genesis of them perhaps is to be found in a letter written by him to Acland early in March, 1895. Cap Martin. My dear Acland, You have known Oxford intimately through a long and honoured life. There are three questions which I am about to put, once more presuming on your often experienced kindness. 1. Whom would you point out among living and accessible Oxford men as the man or men most conversant (a) with the works of Butler, (b) with their relation to the philosophies which were in possession of the field when he wrote his Analogy ? 2. Paley, after considering the pain and suffering of the animal creation, gives a confident judgement that it is small relatively to the amount of enjoyment. Tennyson, on the other hand, says that Nature is red with ravin, tooth, and claw: and Romanes in his earlier work seems to adopt and expand this doctrine of Tennyson. What do the naturalists proper say upon it ? Who is the best authority to consult ?