Viii LORD LILFORD 



nature to see the inexorable trammels of physical 

 disability slowly cutting off from it what it most 

 keenly enjoyed the opportunity of personal 

 observation in a large sphere, the delight in 

 new impressions, the large sympathy with a 

 perpetually increasing world of nature and 

 man. 



These are the qualities which constitute 

 greatness. It was impossible not to speculate 

 sometimes what a man with Lord Lilford's 

 qualities might have achieved if the circum- 

 stances of his life had impelled him towards a 

 political or literary career, instead of drawing 

 him from it. He was totally devoid of what is 

 ordinarily called ambition ; he was by nature 

 fastidious and reserved. The malady which 

 reduced him to a cripple in the prime of life, 

 gave early signs of its approach. He selected 

 permanent interests which he might preserve 

 despite his physical limitations, and abandoned 

 all the rest. He aimed at making life as he 

 was compelled to lead it as full as possible, and 



