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Lord Avebury. 



fine ideals in politics and in science, 

 yet it is now scarcely a compliment to 

 call a man an aristocrat and an ama- 

 teur. Avebury himself could not fol- 

 low the newer order. With other rep- 

 resentatives of the old whig and liberal 

 families, he parted from Gladstone in 

 38S6 over the question of home rule for 

 Ireland. ITe was out of sympntliy with 



the radical and socialistic democracy 

 into which the party to which he once 

 belonged has moved, .\mateurism in 

 science, like aristocracy in government, 

 is no longer credited. Avebury 's books 

 are not now read so eagerly as in the 

 past, and it may be that such books 

 will not hereafter be written. "We 

 have moved forward into a new age 



