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MORMONS 



Morli'> . a iMiini.-i|.:il Uirough in tin- W.-t Hilling 

 of Yorkshire. ~> miles S\V. of I,eeds, with woollen 

 manufactures, coal mines, and stone quarrieo. 

 Mentioned in I>onie*dav , it lH'ame a Uirough only 

 in I8S.',. 1'op. (1881) 13,011 ; ilv.U i IS.TiV 



Morlr). lliNKY. English author, was l>orn in 

 I,ondon. Sepii-mliei 15, 182*2, and educated at j 

 tin- Moravian SclnMiI. Nenvvied on the Ithine. and 

 Kings College, London. where he edited tin' King's \ 

 i'i,//i-,/r Maifizine. After practising medicine at) 

 Madelv. Shropshire, from 1844 till 1S4H. and keep- 

 ing school for tin 1 next two yenix at Li-cant, Liver- 

 pool. IIP scttlcil down with some reluctance in 

 I. 'union to literary work in connect ion with House- 

 lutlii Word* and the Kniiiiinrr. (If the latter lie 

 wax joint-editor from 1856 to 1H.">9. and sole editor 

 fnmi that vear till IstU. He was English lectuiei 

 at King's College for eight years previous to isii.'i. 

 when he became professor of English Language and 

 Literature at I'nivcrsity College, London, an otlice 

 which he resigned in 1889. In 1889 he rontriliuted 

 the article on Kurdish Litenitnrc to this work. In 

 Is7o he was appointed examiner in English Lan- 

 guage, Literature, and History to the university of ! 

 London. His numerous writing include How to 

 make Home Cnheiilth '/ I IVrfi i : .1 llrfenre of Ignur- 



i lire ( 1851); Lives of I'ulissy (1 852 ), Jerome Car- 

 dan ( 1854), and Cornelius Agrippal 1856); Memoirs 

 "t Hurt/ml,, ,i,<ir l-'iiir ( IH.">7). reprints of his essays 

 in Huiixcl<i>ltl H'lin/t : to volumes of Fairy Tales 

 (1859-60); English Writers to Ihtnbar (2 parte, 

 1864-36), worked up anew into the first 4 vols., 

 |ss7 89, of a projected complete history of English 

 literature in 20 volumes); annotated editions of 

 the Spectator (1868) and Boswell's Life of John- 

 ton (1886): Tables of English Literature (1870); 

 Clement M,ir,,t ,/ ,,thtr Stediw (1871); A First 

 Sketfh of English Literature (1873); Library of 

 English' Literature (5 vols. 1876-82); and Of KH-I 

 Hah Literature in the Reign of Victoria (1881). 

 No man hay done so much to make classi'Ml 

 literature (both English and foreign through 

 English translations I acce-sible t<i the people 

 as Henry Morley through his odmirahle series, 

 Morlcy's 1'iiivemal Lihrary ( l>:t volumes at a shil- 

 ling each, 1883-88); Cossell's National Lihrary 



-'"'.i volumes at threepence each, 1886-90); and 

 the C'aril>rooke Lihrarv, a series of half-crown vol- 

 ume* ( 1888 rt . .;,.]. ]{',- died 14th May 1894. See, 

 Life by H. S. Solly (1898). 



Morley. JOHN, M.P., was born at Black- 

 burn, 24th Itecemlier 1838; he was educated at 

 Cheltenham and Lincoln College, Oxford, and, 

 after taking his degree in 1859, was called to 

 the bar, but chose literature as a prolV-sjon. 

 The bent known of his Isioks are Kiliiuunl 

 Burke (1867), Critical .)/,.,,//.,- (1871 and 

 1877), Voltaire (1872), On Coiii/>ri,mine (1874), 

 Rousseau (1876), Diilernl ,i,,,l tin /./ ,/,-/,,nrrfwfc 

 (1878), RieJutrd CoUen (1881). From 1867 till 

 1882 IIP .-.lit.-.l the FortKtffktty Hrrinr ; and he has 

 edited the ' English Men of Letters ' scries. II, i- 

 an honorary LL. I), of (Jlosgow. Though |>ossess- 

 ing great literary faculty and |>ower of phrase, Mr 

 Uorley'l desire hax not U-en merely t.. write a 

 readable Imok or to transmit knowledge, but 

 always to make character stronger and dee|>cr. 

 He seems oppressed hy the triviality of life; he 

 f.-cls that only the IM-I is worth an elVort, l.nt that 

 this is worth all ellort, while in.liflerence and 

 medkwHty of aspiration are the greatest curses of 

 mankind. In politic- he luis IH-CII throughout life 

 a prononnc-i-il liailical, and in religious (guest ions lie 

 haK long st<MMl far apart from the great majoiiu of 

 his coniitryiiien. 



He unsuccessfully contested Blackburn ill 1865, 

 and Westminster in !**<>. From 18SO to 18M.1, when 



he was elected for Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mr Morley 

 was editor of the Pall Mall QatttU, His article's 

 in favour of Home Hule written then, ami follow,-.! 

 up by action in the House of Commons and speeches 

 in llic country in ISXTi, did much to inllucnci- public 

 opinion liefore Mr (Gladstone's change of |Milic\ was 

 known. In 18Ht( be IxTame Irish Secn-tary till the 

 dissolution which followed the rejection of the 

 Home Ifule Bill in that year. In 1890, during the 

 dilliculty as to the leadership of the Irish party, 

 he diicclK siippoiTi-.l Mi QlaortOM, A- a speakiT 

 Mr Morley has certainly succeeded in the coiinti \ : 

 he has few of the siipci ijcial gifts of all orator, but 

 he ne\ci fails to convey to a public audience an 

 irresistible impression of earnestness and sympatli\ . 

 which him given him a |>er>onal hold on men's minds. 



Though not an advocate ol state interferei , he 



wishes |Kilitic- to lie regarded as a means for laising 



tl piires-ed. and elevating national character. 



Hi- political opponents say that Mr Morley i- a 

 man of letters, more lilted to write hi-toiy than to 

 make it. but sci/ed with a perverse desire to be 

 a politician ; and doubt whether his earnest cour- 

 age is matched hy )>cnet rating insight into the 

 atlaii - of the moment and the i|iiickin of decision 

 essential to the highest success in public life. His 

 o].p..-ition to the comimlsory Eight Hours Bill 

 lost him his popularity and his seat at New.-a-i ! 

 in 1895. In 18!>6 he was elected for the Mont rose 

 Burghs. He took a somewhat less conspicuous 

 part in public affairs, but strongly opposed the 

 new Soudan expeditions. His Xtmlirx tn Litera- 

 ture ap|>cared in 1891 ; his Romanes lecture on 

 Mai-liiai-illi in 1897. In 1898 he was selected to 

 writ Mr Gladstone's Life. See the Review of 

 Reviews for December 1890. 



Morley, SAMUEL, l>orn in Homerton, October 

 15, 1809, entered his father's hosiery warehouse, and 

 shared with a brother the chief responsibility from 

 1840 till Is.M. when lie became sole bead of the 

 concern. He was returned to |uirliament for N..I 

 tingham, in the Liberal interest, in Isii.'i ; was un- 

 seated on jietition ; represented Bristol in 1868-85, 

 and declined a peerage. Identified with many reli- 

 gious and philanthropic movement*, he gave lkKKi 

 towards tin; erection of n Nonconformist memorial 

 hall, and during 1804-71) contributed i'l-J.iMl to- 

 wards the erection of Congregational chapels. Me 

 died September.'). ISSd. See Life by Hodder (18X7 ,. 



Norinaer. See EARL. 



Mormons, or, as they call themselves, the 

 Church of .lesns Christ of Latter-day Saints, a re- 



li^'inus organisation, the founder 

 of which was Joseph Smith, who 

 was |K)III at Sharon, Vt., on i'til 

 December, 18H.V He was the son of a farmer, and 

 at the age of ten removed with his parents liom 

 the slate of Vermont t<i Palmyra, in the state of 

 New York, and four years later to the neighbour- 

 ing town of Manchester. It was here, according to 

 his claim, that he received in 18'20 his lii-i rei ela- 

 tion his divine call as a lirophet of the .Most Ili^'h. 

 with no less ailthoiity and power than were wielded 

 by the ancient Heel's and prophets of biblical fame. 

 1'rior to this he had belonged to no religious l>ody, 

 though of a spiritual turn of mind, with a leaning 

 toward Methodism, lie declared that no less a vi-i 

 tation than that of the Father and the Son. of two 

 per-on- of the Trinity, was vouchsafed to him. 

 Hi second visitation from the unseen world v\.is on 

 the evening of '21st September !S'j:t A glorious 

 personage appeared at his U-dside, and. announc- 

 ing himself as a messenger tioni the presence of 

 (ii\, 'called me by name ami said unto me . . . 

 that (!d had a work for me to do, and that mv 

 name should IK- had for good and evil among all 

 nations, kindreds, and tongues. . . . He said i heic 



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