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CHAPTER XIII. 



THE DRUID " AS A POLITICIAN. 



EVER yet was there a boy sent 

 to Rugby School to be educated 

 there when Dr. Arnold was in 

 his prime, who was more in a 

 condition to imbibe and sympathise with the 

 atmosphere of Liberal politics which that 

 greatest of schoolmasters diffused around him. 

 What that atmosphere was may be gathered 

 from many passages to be found in Dean 

 Stanley's admirable " Life of Dr. Arnold," one 

 of which and one only, I must ask permission 

 to add to these pages. In chapter iv., the 

 following sentences occur : — 



11 There was a peculiar importance attach- 

 ing in Dr. Arnold's view, to political ques- 

 tions, with which every reader of his works 

 must be familiar. The life of the common- 



