His life-work, of course, is the Navy as witnessed to-day, although it is too much to expect that we shall with case secure another administrator and tactician in any way his equal, since he is rightly ranked by current opinion as having been second only to Nelson. He combined the two qualities of being a very efficient Admiral afloat and an equally good administrator and organizer at home. He not, only brought the Navy to a very high state of efficiency but nearly the whole of its plans as followed in the late war were evolved by him and practised long' before the struggle broke out.
In this life-work he naturally came across uiany antagonista. His feud with Lord Beresford is very well-known, yet there is no doubt that Lord Fisher was in the tight, and viewed purely from the naval standpoint he was undeniably the better man. In many ways his methods of gaining his Point were peculiar and, according to some critics, not altogether scrupulous, though this is, I think, very. He did, however,
Lord Fisher being'at the Admiralty who opposed him, though perhaps work the i 85, but 20 did bor at the time used his official position which supplied him with all the information he wanted to carry his campaigning point. He came of British parentage though some people suggested that a man of such Oriental astuteness could not be a pure Caucasian. Hence the: patoanded rumour of his Malay lood.
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