CHAPTER XIII 



" st. lubbock's day" (1871) 



(Age 37) 



Few men, perhaps, have entered Parliament 

 with views so clearly cut or so well considered 

 in respect of their aims and projects; to few, 

 probably, has it been given to go into that high 

 assembly with such pure and unselfish ideals ; 

 but very certainly it has been the fortune of 

 a very small minority to carry through so large a 

 proportion of the legislative proposals which they 

 have put forward. 



At the time of his death one of the great 

 daily papers wrote of him : 



" In Lord Avebury there has been removed 

 one of the most accomplished of England's 

 amateur men of science, one of the most prolific 

 and successful authors of his time, one of the 

 most earnest of social reformers, and — what is 

 not perhaps generally known — one of the most 

 successful law-makers in the recent history of 

 Parliament." 



Comprehensive as this brief appreciation is, 



it yet passes by one very important sphere of 



his activity — the financial, for he was not only 



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