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Amongst members of a different class Mr. Gladstone paid a

most eloquent tribute to Bishop Butler, whom he described, in Shelley's words, as one of "the inheritors of unfulfilled renown," and he also gave great credit to Archbishop Land, of whom he said that Lord Macaulay had greatly underrated his capacity and influence, nay, that Laud had given "to the Anglican polity and worship what was, in the main, the impress of his own mind." In the concluding passages of his lecture, Mr. Gladstone deprecated most eloquently that view of a University which makes it its duty to prepare its students for professional success. Its true ideal, he said, is to train men who are greater than their work, and who do not merge themselves in practical life.