courage they could carry a great scientific truth
through the storms of politics. They had shown
that they could arouse and govern the assenting
thousands who listened to them with delight--
that they could bend the House of Commons--
that they could press their creed upon a prime
minister, and put upon his mind so hard a stress
that, after a while, he felt it to be a torture and.
a violence to his reason to have to make stand
against them. Nay, more; each of these two gift-
ed men had proved that they could go bravely
into the midst of angry opponents -- could show
them their fallacies one by one -- destroy their
favorite theories before their very faces, and tri-
umphantly argue them down. Now these two
men were honestly devoted to the cause of peace.
They honestly believed that the impending war
with Russia was a needless war. There was no
stain upon their names. How came it that they
sank, and were able to make no good stand for
the cause they loved so well?

"The answer is simple.

"Upon the question of peace or war (the very
question upon which, more than any other, a man
might well desire to make his counsels tell) these
two gifted men had forfeited their hold upon the
ear of the country. They had forfeited it by their
former want of moderation. It was not by any
intemperate words upon the question of this war
with Russia that they had shut themselves out

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