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MR. ASQUITE ON THE VICTORIAN AGE,
ROMANES LECTURE, For the arst time in the history of the
was born; in 1919 Dickens and Browning;! in 1816 Charlotte Bronte; in 1819, the year which saw the birth of Queen Victoria her self, George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Ruskin. He had included Gladstone in his list of worthies not because he was a politician. but in spite of that. Even this marvellous and (Laughter.)
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Romanes Lecture at Oxford since its in: most unexampled array of namier gavs a thick fog off the French Atlantic coast
an inadequate idea of the resources of is a great experience for a landlubber en Victorian genius, When the age was at
quite
stitution in 1892, the Chancellor of the University presided in person this year
its zenith, the stream, if never afterwards French destroyer. This, for the. French over the gathering which assembled to
ite so full and strong, did not dry up. destroyer, is only the daily drudgery hear it. The occasion was notable in Critics sometimes tried to pake compari- which has been done during three and a I merely saw one day's another direction-it gave the great and sons between some of these great writers
and poets, but men and women of crea-half years of war. distinguished assembly which crowded tive genius could not be labelled and normal work. The elderly skipper," gal- every available spot in the Sheldonian classided like plants and politicians. On Theatre an opportunity of giving expres. the whole, the novelists rather than the lantly joining from the Reserve, as ro sion to the feelings entertained for Mr. poets had left the deepest impress on the many of our own retired officers hare
in regard to popular imagination.
Ink pardon; it is just the | Asquith, the lecturer, in that centre of Charles Kingsley, he had remarkable done, apologised for the tameness of the
powers both of conception and descrip day. learning which was the scene of his early tinn, and in the supremely difficult task ordinary run; unfortunately we have brilliant promise, ang where he is roof writing for children which consisted nothing sensational to show you. If we garded, to quote the words of Eart Carf mixing good sense with good nonsense, had had we would have done so, but every
be had not Been surpassed except, perhaps, thing at sea is just luck."
The more working day of the little TON, as one of its most eminent sons. by one whom Oxford clained as peculiar.
destroyer, now old. but still were fit. wax There was he mistaking the warmth of ly her own-Lewis Carroll. those feelings in the reception necorded Dealing with the effect which this pro-interesting enough to the landsman. I him when he rose to deliver his address life output of genius had on the public, was glad indeed to be just in the boat. but the Chancellor probably most truly Mr. Asquith referred to the recent autu and with the officers and mon in their
drudgery, and nothing interpreted the thoughts of those prent biography of Sir Edward Clarke," the ordinary
Just everyday work that has in his reference to the disgust with which Ernament of the forensic and poliiteal what
The eminent lawyer did not been carried on quietly each day since the This the university and the public regard the world."
from Dunkirk to Bayerne. Abuse to which our publie men are sul enjoy the advantages, or what one in these was
days ought perhaps to say: suffer from the particular little elderly destroyer of 400 jreted in these days.
drawbacks of a public school and uni ions was at Dunkirk, and has run between Tersity education, yet one could see what Dunkirk and Bordeaux countless times, bu owed to the hooks to which he referred conveying merchantmen in his Life. If we desired to measure our indebtedness to the novelists of that period, we could do so by noting how great was the effect they had left upon the thought and speech of our people.
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In introducing Mr. Asquith Lord Cur zon said they welcomed Mr. Asquith there that day, not so much as a public man.
We set out before daybreak 'on but, as a scholar and student, a man who
destroyer's daily job of meeting merchant- found time in the intervals of a strenuous life to travel in what the poet called the
men and looking out for submarines gralms of gold," and to gather a goodly
There are a good many submarines round bere, but I must say they must have a barvest therefrom. He had come there
bad time of it. Our boat and a thousand that afternoon to add the gleanings of
INTELLECTUAL CRITICISM.
ather bonts are incessantly darting hither BEST that harvest by delivering the Romanes
The note of revolt was not charas and thither over their heads, and they Lecture. He had chose cteristic of the Victorian Age, but, the can scarcely put their noses above try "Some aspects of the Victorian
Victorians were not allowed to wax fat water for a moment. One does not envy To what Mr. Asquith would refer they d the prophetic offer had rarely been the life of the German submarine anilor. would presently listen, but he would like more fully exercised than it was by We pick our way by chart and compres to conclude with one thoroughly irrele vant remark, and it was, that among the Carlyle and Ruskin, who pointed to the through an opaque white fog and cannot. failures of the Victorian age as they saw see 200 yards ahead. The coast is a dend ly one. strewn with rocks and islands. aspects of the post-Victorian age there was them. Matthew Arnold also joined as a none which that University, and be believed, every section of the public reprophet, and gave evidence of his intellec. The skipper gropes his way from buoy to gards with so much abhorrence and disual impatience of the sterility and hoy and lighthouse to lighthouse, ench
futility of contetaporary life. Jobd barely seen before one is upon it. aust as the gross and gratuitous defama Alorley's On Compromise, too, came as
LOOKING FOR VICTIMS. tier of the character of our public men.
a scathing indictment of some Victorian Loud cheers.)
"Splendid weather for submarines," insincerities. "The number of people
How! Good for the who think in any country is comparatively said the skipper.
and smaller submarines?""No, good for us. This small," said the lecturer, still the number who think for themselves, is the best sort of weather in which to yet those were days of general speculative see a submarine, and, of course, hit it' It comes up, peers tendencies which would have their place when you see it. in the history of thought. During the through its periscope, and cannot see any be said to have been the philosophy in
rst twenty-five years utilitarianism may thing and you suddenly come upon it
did not come upon one. but we sud- denly heard guns. Our five little guns office."
After paying a warm tribute to Jowett, were ready, with a man at each, and our one of the most unselfish of tutors,'
,"torpedo-tubes. We were very keen to fire, Mr. Asquith passed on to deal with the but we had nothing to are upon in the message Subraarine thirty rise and fall of the Tractarian movement, mist. The explanation came later from a Another and a luckie: des- All miles off." the Broad Church, and the relative posi. wireless tions of Robertson and Spurgeon. these topics, he said, would have to be troyer had been in that spot thirty miles had fred and torpedoed and drop-
сопи depth charges, and
DISTINCTIVE EPOCHS.
erations to come the historian would speas placed by the historian in their due and emphantly sure it had done for the.
дя
My, Asquith said it was a curious fact that the only in English history Sovereigns who had given their names to an epoch had been three Queens. No ear talked of the age of Edward L., of the age of Henry VIII., or of George III., though their reigns were all times of gait national movement both in the sphere of action and in the sphere of thought. The ages of Elizabeth and Anne passed into the conventional dialect of chronology, and although it was less than twenty years since Queen Victoria died, they could feel little doubt that for gen- Both the age of of the Fictorian Age. Elizabeth and the age of Anne survived in point of time, the monarchy which had given them their name. Shakespeare and Bacon, the two Elizabethar giants, produced their richest and most memor able work alter the accession of Janes The achievements of the three greatest Englishmen in the reign of Anne, great in their several departments es perhaps any three in English history Newton, Marlborough, and Wrea-were practically completed before the Queen's death; but Pepe, Bolingbroke, and Addi. son, and not a few others, continued to preserve the tradition of the age of Anne, projecting like a salient into the duli prosaic levels of the early Hanoverina "On the other hand, that which they roughly called the Victorian Age, in those of its features which would give it characteristic and individual place in his tory, was erded for some time a decade at least before the end of the great Queen's reign. Not only had its dominat- ing personalities, with one or two excep tians, disappeared, but a transformation. subtle at first, almost imperceptible, of which they were stily set in, and a now velopment, had already chapter, perhaps one might say a new volume, had been opened in the story of their national life. It was only in B
era.
torians.
www
We were still groping our way through
We were still fog.
peering for
proper perspective. A reference to Her. bert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy brought the lecturer to the open assault submarine. at Oxford on the fashionable cult of Mill. Mark Pattison, Froude, and Freeman the thick then came under review by Mr. Asquith, buoys and fighthouses, alsa fooking for who incidentally observed that Froude the convoy coming from England; to ad and Freeman became catchwords in the which seemed to the landsman worse than dispute whether it was possible for a great finding a needle in a bottle of hay. HAY historian to be accurate, and readable. ing renched the worst danger zone we (Laughter.) In the realm of art be redashed up and down from east to west. Can't miss the convoy now," said the ferred to Millais and Watts, and thought the art of the Vicotrians difficult to Ax, skipper. Around us were darting those though it was contended by some that it marvellous little U-boat chasers built in was not barren inta-lude in the annals of America, and peaceful fishing-boats were After we had In the unconcernedly fishing. the English school of painting domain of science, in chemistry and phy-rushed up and down for a little while, sics. Faraday and Kelvin were among sure enough parts of the convoy appeared -boat chasers replied, and we and the those who transformed "the face of the from out of the fog. We signalled, the world and the habits of mankind,
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at "her own
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The most interesting event of the age, said the lecturer, was the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1839. There was nothing new in the theory evolution, yet.extraordinary interest was aroused in the controversy which followed. He (Mr. Asquith) refrained from touck ing even the fringe of that contorversy convoy, now clearly seen, the fog, having as it presented itself to biologists, for risen in the sunshine, we danced round the convoy. We waltzed round it; we by was out qualified of nience, yes he followed a good old peaceful speed, and
the temple testified to the cordial relations which steamer existed between Darwin and Wallace in suddenly, with an order from the skipper their contemporaneous investigations. into the speaking tube, dashed on, turned limited sense that he could speak on the 17. Asquith amused those present with round just ahead of the steamer raced subject chosen, because the terms of the description of the historic scene be back pust the stern of her, and raced on trust under which the Romanes Lecture was sween Bishop Wilberforce and Professor again. Then we did zigzags in front of giren precluded dissertation on politics Huxley, who gave the bishop a nasty the steamer and other steamers; then we and theology, and each of these absorbed fall," and then, in picturesque language, zigzagged on either side of the convoy. It was like a Ay buzzing round a plodding a great part of the energies of the Vic
gave another instance of the controver
saving the 3,000-ton cargo boats, they were am on the side famous pronouncement," Within the area so circumscribed the cial method which led up to Disraeli's ox, but our 400-tons were not teasing, The skipper was quite pleased. "You Our little most obvious thing to arrest the atten of the angels.
see how the picked upt tion in any survey of the Victorian age
probably raised more questions was the almost paradoxical incongruity than be settled but speaking of the main eleven-year-old destroyer did indeed pick between what might be aptly termed sproblem put forward by him, Mr. Asquith and in a few moments get up to eighteen up. She could crawl beside the steamer, outward and its inward life. It was a thought that man's physical pedigree or twenty knots, swerve round down era when England was ruled by the whatever it might be, must be regarded astern of the steamer, then up again and middles classes, who lived in uninspiras of little moment. Whether his origin leading once more, after which she zig
development ing, though picturesque surroundings. was by special creation or by
zagged like an acrobat on
said the skipper. The growing pains of democracy were from lower forms of organic life, some Good little boat, hardly beginning to be felt. The country where and somehow, he was united with "Speed and zigzagging are our only real After & had been at peace with all Europe except
something that was to be found nowhere
bere methods against submarines." for the Crimean War. The general atti else in nature. He hoped, in conclusion, few more stunts the danger zone was tude of mind was that of contentment that the occupier of that chair some fifty passed. We just signalled imperiously to acquiescence, he might almost say of years hence, if he was so minded, would the convoy Follow us!" and made complacency. Though not so inaalasin take a survey of the same degree of post-straight for the anchorage. their habits of mind and feeling as some Victorian times, and be able to say that There we inspected a convoy painted times represented, they met, from time to their contribution was comparable with all over curiously, and looking exactly time, genuine sympathy with what one their predecessors in the things that per like so many Cubist pictures planted in of their great orators had once described manently enriched and exalted mankind the green sea. We passed also a flotilla as nationalities "rightly struggling to
and
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It took a long time to make them realise that they might be paying too high a world under a system of industry which crippled and stunted the women and children of the country.
going out once more, as they do day by But the greatest sight of all which we saw on getting at Mr. George Haven Putnam, the Ameri. the
under an escort of
Countiese can publisher and publicist, who wis
is and little chasers. The any time. escorting boath started Livery Club, at the Holborn Restaurant, the largest fleet that has ever sailed in recently, said he regretted that his coun- waltzing round the great sailing feet. try did not enter the war earlier. end I imagine are still doing their vigi was confident that she was now neglecting fant tricks around it even now as I write. POWERFUL INFLUENCES
nothing that would make her co-operation "Our men don't look much," said the torpedo Proceeding to deal with the many not forcible and effective. Many of the skipper in my eleven-year-old able names which figured in the Victorian American boys were still green, but the bon they don't look much, but they reign, Mr. Asquith mentioned Manning, material was good. Theduty of keeping are the beat chaps in the world. They are and all Bretons, and they are faithful unto Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, and down fools-short-haired women
this General Gorden. Euch of these in his long-haired men-fell upon every Ezccu- death. They have been doing or her day was a prominent and forceful tive-in-war time. Such people brought old job all round the Atlantic coast since Incidentally, the second personality. In the intellectual sphere about peace without understanding what the war began." the 'ricbest pearl of the period was be
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