NOTIONS OF RIGHT AND WRONG.

Waikato Times, 22 February 1873, Page 3

NOTIONS OF RIGHT AND WRONG.

The organ of Yencratiou is well mprkod in Mr Gladstone, ond is weak in the Earl of Lvrfy , jot I would much rr-ther soe liQrd Dorby primo minister than Mr Gladstone, supposing Lord Derby had tho general qualities and the ambtfion which seem to be needed m a premier nowadays Ofcoui % st\ this preference implies no verdict upon the total preibrabihty of Lcn*d Darby's charactor to Mr Gladstone's. I must beg the reader to turn his attention to any good lull-faced portrait of Garibaldi or Washington My impression 19 that Tom Piimc, also, would scne my purpose ; but I am not quitft sure about him, for I only once srw hu likeness ; and of caurpe that, v.us not a photograph or taken from one. If, then, you will look at a portrait of Garibaldi, you w ill at onc<\ obserro bow different it is from that of a man in whom Ye.icration is the dominant of the character. I bel!,c\e there is no full-face photogiaph of either Dr. M\nniug or Dr Vaughan; but luckily for my purpose , there is one of Sir Ro in 101 l Palmer, who will do very well. Sir Roiuulell lias a kecu grey oye, but, in ipite of tbc keenness, tho expression h veiled and withdrawn — the hd falls, and even thostraight-a-head glance has something, of au upward quality in it. But Sir Roundell Palmer's head and face have not the peculiar, " set" which may be noticed in tho case of Dr, Manning and Dr Yaughan. There 19 more crcctness of carriage. In the tw,> clergymen- there is a bow or bent set of the skull, in »Witicu,to the veiling of the eyes. Now return to your Garibaldi photograph, and notice, not only tho shape of the lievd, square as that is from tho part over the ears to tho, forehead, but notice also the set of the 'head. Th&t, also might be described as square. I am allowing fully for the military clement in all its bearings, and when that is done and over 7 1 find something very remarkable in the balanced squarness of the set ol the head. A similar set may be noticed in men at dissimilar otherwise as Washington,. Count Moltke, Louis Blanc, Hobjspierro, Milton, Pnestloy, and Voltaire. lil.the, last case, as in that of Sterne, there is something of tht peculiar twist or duck of the humorist's head ; but only Aory dull or very conceited persona will laugh at this motley list Even a rising smile would, I should- think, 'be checked by simply recalling the fact that tho best judges among the warmest friends, "good Catholics" all, of.-the , Cure d' Ars, were struck with the resemblance between bis mask -and that of Voltaire j Now, the Cure" d 1d 1 Ars was a Roman Catholic clergjman, who lived a life of tender austerity and self-mortification, j and cxerciied his calling as a priest in a spirit of the most intense saintliness. In speaking of so self-denying and benevolent a man, it seems harsh to qualify one word of the homage he compels even from the most bigoted Protestant ; but when I say that he was tenderly benevolent, my own convictions compel mo to add, as much so as his creed would permit him to be. Such langnagc cannot without qualification be justly applied to a man who could go about to make the minds of the young familiar with the most horrible images of torture lnlhell. It is atop-heavy Bcntimci t> of Yegera.tion ,for Authority which makes such Jiscropancies possible j but, h,c waver large — to uso strict phrenological language— the organ of Benevolence may be in a man like this, the organof Destructiveness must be very large. When I say this I say a thing with which I know some of ray readers will disagree, and how can I have an opinion without doing so 9—l9 — I entreat them to believe that I am, at tho same time fully mindful of what they would say, and that, in a subaudiitu; I make their protests for them. I know perfectly well, for example, what, an enlightened Romanist, or, indeed, many an enlightened Protestant would reply- to me in a case like the present. Be at ease, sir, or madam, I have heard and registered your reply — St Paul's.