Intellect.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 78956, 11 August 1905, Page 3

Intellect.

AMEIUCAX ANI) ENGIJSII. No one who lias considered the matter (says the New York American) can question the lacl that among ihe most iiipie'siiitaUvc Eng- ! lishinin there seems to be a higher | order of achievement in all lines o! j purely intellectual worn than among | the corresponding class in the Lnitva j States. Perhaps over there the sKill 'of many of our people in invention, [organisation, or the I making of money is not equalled, indued, some of the methods employed in nim j United Slates lor roiling up millions tor lone man would in England be 'checked by the sudden interposition joi the.enminal lavi' )( aiui:m vastly I more cases by public sentiment whica I there, more than here, places upon I business a certain restricted code of honour and propriety. But we hard'ly are able to produce men like I Gladstone, who could turn from truly practical politics to disquisitions on the Scriptures, or translations of the classics ;■ John Morley, whq is a successful politician, ami a literary man of the highest capacity ;| Disraeli, novelist, and 'Premier ; Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister and expert scientist. It. is not necessary to go beyond these four. Tne list would be extended interminably. We have our eminent literary men. We have our statesmen. We have our scientists, and our true politicians. Never do we find the four qualities confined in one. It might be said that one reason for this is that the men in English -|gublic life are men who inherited means, and were thereby freed from, that which to almost every American, up to the present generation, was necessaryr-namely, self-sup-port. But Disraeli Was poor. So, too, was Morley. Gladstone, while proba% nqver s«irkmsty at a loss for means, was not a rich nun. Salisbury, of, tihese four, was 'the only one born to Mi© purple.