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The ad hoc Session of last Christmas was too short

to test the vitality of the new Members. But in the present Session they will have opportunity to show whether they have enough application, patience, persistence, moderation, and intellectual grasp to make the country feel that its • interests are in worthy hands; Public opinion is friendly; but not. uncritical. It is ready to take a wider and more sustained interest in public affairs than for many years. This means that every Member has both an opportunity and a task ; let him feel that on him depends the essential prestige of one of the greatest of human institutions.

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