[2] The most distinguished of all those competitors has borne his
testimony to the truth of this expression. 'I well remember,' Mr.
Gladstone wrote after his death, placing him as to the natural gift of
eloquence at the head of all those I knew either at Eton or at the
University.'

[3] His elder brother.

[4] 'We are disposed, in fact, to regard the question, of
University extension, in this sense, as depending entirely on the
possibility of reducing the time required for a University degree, and
we should like to see more attention paid to this point.... The
opinion is strongly and widely entertained, that students now stay too
long at the Public Schools and Universities, and that voting men
ought not to be engaged in the mere preparatory studies of their life
up to the age of twenty-three or twenty-four.'--_Times_, May 22, 1869.

[5] There remains a memorandum in his handwriting of a systematic
course of study to be pursued for his degree, in which two points are
remarkable--1st, the broad and liberal spirit in which it is
conceived; 2ndly, that the whole is based on the Bible. Ancient
History, together with Aristotle's Politics and the ancient orators,
are to be read 'in connection with the Bible History,' with the view
of seeing 'how all hang upon each other, and develops the leading
schemes of Providence.' The various branches of mental and moral
science he proposes, in like manner, 'to hinge upon the New Testament,
as constituting, in another line, the history of moral and
intellectual development.'