the wholesome quiet and the homely ways of country life. Hobson
and Brian Newcome are not fair specimens of the effect of Clapham
influences upon the second generation. There can have been
nothing vulgar, and little that was narrow, in a training which
produced Samuel Wilberforce, and Sir James Stephen, and Charles
and Robert Grant, and Lord Macaulay. The plan on which children
were brought up in the chosen home of the Low Church party,
during its golden age, will bear comparison with systems about
which, in their day, the world was supposed never to tire of
hearing, although their ultimate results have been small indeed.

It is easy to trace whence the great bishop and the great writer
derived their immense industry. Working came as naturally as
walking to sons who could not remember a time when their fathers
idled. "Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Babington have never appeared
downstairs lately, except to take a hasty dinner, and for half an
hour after we have supped. The slave-trade now occupies them nine
hours daily. Mr. Babington told me last night that he had fourteen
hundred folio pages to read, to detect the contradictions, and to
collect the answers which corroborate Mr. Wilberforce's assertions
in his speeches. These, with more than two thousand pages to be
abridged, must be done within a fortnight, and they talk of
sitting up one night in every week to accomplish it. The two
friends begin to look very ill, but they are in excellent spirits,
and at this moment I hear them laughing at some absurd questions
in the examination." Passages such as this are scattered broadcast
through the correspondence of Wilberforce and his friends.
Fortitude, and diligence, and self- control, and all that makes
men good and great, cannot be purchased from professional
educators. Charity is not the only quality which begins at home.