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with a crumpled paper in his hand bearing the legend
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Atheism, he was more than usually in touch with the social sentiment of which he is the leading artistic exponent. Our
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English love of fair play was never more neatly illustrated, even by that
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This was the line taken, for instance, not only by Sir Hardinge Giffard, but by Sir Walter Barttelot, a typical Tory squire and
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English gentleman, who just before Bradlaugh's death in 1891 won for himself some credit by a frank tribute to his honesty of character. Were it not for the countenance given by Mr John Morley at the time to a patently unjust account of Bradlaugh's action--an account which Gladstone as well as Bright then explicitly contradicted--one would be disposed to point to the general repetition of the untruth by the Tory press and party as proving how worthless a thing the
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of English gentlemen is in matters of public action. It is a matter of simple fact that Bradlaugh all along anxiously sought to keep his Atheism out of cognisance of the susceptibilities of the House;[137] and it is perfectly certain that had he come forward to take the oath at the outset, he would not only have been afterwards vilified by the Opposition as a blasphemous hypocrite, but would have been challenged all the same by Wolff and the rest. The matter had been openly discussed beforehand. There is thus no conclusion open save that the majority in the vote on the affirmation motion did a gross injustice; and though the really religious men in the House, as Gladstone and Bright, were mostly on the other side, and the religiosity of the aggressors was in many cases a nauseous farce, it must be assumed that religion counted for much[138] in the matter. Parnell in the next stage of the question avowed that he had been on Bradlaugh's side from the first, but had found himself opposed on the point by
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There would seem to be no doubt that the Catholic priesthood--actively represented by Cardinal Manning--determined the action of Parnell's followers, and later his own. It is perhaps not unprofitable to reflect that most of the
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Liberal