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divine and human, which he regarded with 

 so deep a reverence. Popular principles and 

 democracy, when he used those words in a 

 good sense, were not the opposition to a 

 hereditary Monarchy or Peerage, which he 

 always valued as precious elements of national 

 life, but were inseparably blended with his 

 strong belief in the injustice and want of 

 sympathy generally shown by the higher to 

 the lower orders. Liberal principles were not 

 merely the expression of his adherence to a 

 Whig Ministry, but of his belief in the con- 

 stant necessity of applying those principles of 

 advance and reform which, in their most 

 perfect development, he conceived to be 

 identical with Christianity itself. Vehement 

 as he was in assailing evil, his whole mind 

 was essentially constructive ; his love of 

 reform was in exact proportion to his love 

 of the institutions which he wished to reform; 

 his hatred of shadows in exact proportion to 

 his love of realities." 



I cannot recall any other pupil of Dr. 



Arnold, during the latter's fourteen years of 



supremacy at Rugby School, who represented 



his master's politics so faithfully as Henry 



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