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Excerpt from Selections From the Papers of Lord Metcalfe; Late Governor-General of India, Governor of Jamaica, and Governor-General of Canada
To the accomplishment of this object I believed that the in trusion of many explanatory notes was not necessary. The papers, for the most part, tell their own story. To have in setted much biographical matter would have been to repeat what I have written elsewhere; and to comment, either ap provingly or disapprovingly, on, Lord Metcalfe's opinions, would have been clearly an impertinence. These opinions are pub lished because they are his; and whether they are mine or not the majority of readers will not care to inquire. It is hardly in the nature of things that any two men should concur wholly in opinion on so large a variety of subjects; but, where differ ence arbes, there are few who will not mistrust their own judg ment on finding that Metcalfe is their opponent. The reader, at all events, may in every case feel assured that the opinion expressed is the growth of much thought and much experience; that it comes honestly and earnestly, from the full heart; and that it has been maintained throughout a life distinguished by many great qualities, but by none so much as by its consistency.
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