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old saying — ^that are in every Irishman. How can 

 the personal charm and gentleness, the tenderness 

 with children, the consideration for women, be recon- 

 ciled with the cruelties that have stained the early 

 rebellions, the barbarities to animals that have 



" IT isn't the man I RESPECTS, BUT THE OFFICE '* 



degraded the later agrarian warfare ? It has been said 

 that the Irishman alone, and the Irishman of the 

 crowd are different beings. Let us, perforce, leave 

 it at that. But in another aspect " the two ways " 

 are equally remarkable. We have spoken of the 

 Irishman's blatant patriotism and of his secret self- 

 distrust; it is of the operation of "the two ways" 



