But the wisdom of Kinglake's counsel is
sustained by the fact that many years afterwards, as a result of
more private discussion, Mr. Gladstone pronounced his conversion to
the two bases of the motion, publicity, and the giving of the State
allowance to the head of the family rather than, person by person,
to the children and grandchildren of the Sovereign. Action
pointing in this direction was taken in 1889 and 1901 on the advice
of Tory ministers.
Amongst Frenchmen of the highest class, intellectually and
socially, he had many valued friends, keeping his name on the
"Cosmopolitan" long after he had ceased to visit it, since "one
never knows when the distinguished foreigner may come upon one, and
of such the Cosmo is the London Paradise." But he used to say that
in the other world a good Frenchman becomes an Englishman, a bad
Englishman becomes a Frenchman. He saw in the typical Gaul a
compound of the tiger and the monkey; noted their want of
individuality, their tendency to go in flocks, their susceptibility
to panic and to ferocity, to the terror that makes a man kill
people, and "the terror that makes him lie down and beg.
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