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Excerpt from Life of the First Marquess of Ripon, K. G., P. C., G. C. S. I., D. C. L., Etc, Vol. 1 of 2
There has been some delay in the preparation of this book, due partly to the failure of my eyesight, which has, for all practical purposes, incapacitated me from reading and writing, and partly to the War, which fas tened men's minds on other things and necessarily modified the plans I had formed for the treatment of my theme. The book, however, has not suffered on that account. I was fortunate in finding other eyes and hands which toiled for me, not only with intelligence, but with unwearying devotion. I am, too, the less concerned to apologize for the delay because it has proved a positive advantage to the memory of Lord Ripon. Time, indeed, has but little relation to the right of a public man to a full record of his life in the literature of his country. Is the story intrinsically interesting? Does it add materially to our stock of knowledge Is there any element of permanence in the ideas and achieve ments it records? Judged by these tests the Life of Lord Ripon, even in my inadequate rendering of it, will, I think, be found fully justified.
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