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founded on the public actions, not on the private character 

 of any of the actors in the Victorian political drama. I am 

 quite prepared to accept the consequences of outspokenness, 

 only asking those who differ from me to take for granted 

 the sincerity of my opinions, and my assurance that they 

 have not been hurriedly formed. 



HENRY G. TURNER. 



MELBOURNE, 1904. 



