V 

 MR. GLADSTONE AND GENESIS 



[1880] 



IN controversy, as in courtship, the good old nil* 

 to be off with the old before one is on with the 

 new, greatly commends itself to my sense of 

 expediency. And, therefore, it appears to me 

 desirable that I should preface such observations I 

 EU9 J may have to offer upon the cloud of argu- 

 ments (the relevancy of which to the issue which 

 I had ventured to raise is not always obvious) 

 put forth by Mr. Gladstone in the January num- 

 ber of this review, 1 by an endeavour to make 

 rli-.-ir io such of our readers as have not had the 

 advantage of a forensic education the present net 

 n -ult of tin- discussion. 



I .-mi ipiitc a ware that, in undertaking this task, 

 J run all the risks to which the man who presumes 

 to deal judicially with his own cause is liable. 

 1 Th< NiiH-t'-'ntli r,-nf in'it 188G. 





