Lord Macaulay

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Excerpt from Lord Macaulay: Being the Members' Prize Essay for 1900 A century after the birth of Macaulay, it is still doubtful what rank of fame will finally be his. Truly enough, we are still very near to him, too near, it may be, to gauge his height correctly. We are still little remote from his contemporaries we have even yet those among us who have seen his features and heard his voice. The influences of his work have not yet passed away. They are not yet perfected and may not yet be fully judged. And in this generation criticism is in no slight degree stayed by all that we know of the man himself, by the singular fascination of his life and of his nature, by the purity of his literary ardour, by the high integrity of his public service. Time will remedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.