It is sometimes regarded as one of the paradoxies of politics that Mr. Bonar Law, who came into power in the political crisis real rise or fall, for power is in the man himself, not in his office, and, in a sense, Mr. Asquith has just as much (and just as little) power now as when he was Prime Minister.
There is an aristoctscy of education as well as of birth. Like all aristocracies, it is distracted the men—some of them of unrivalled mental attainments—who are never afterwards heard of. With Mr. Asquith politics wag the keyhole. but others did the winding—first Gladstone, then Lord Grey and Lord Haldane, then Mr. Lloyd George. and now, they say, some times Mr. Pringle.
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