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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
Gladstone's Diary records all the books which he read and persons with whom he talked.
If a man read a book, it cannot be asserted with certainty that he was influenced by the book. Knowledge passed into the mind if it was interesting enough not to be forgotten. But it is a larger step to attempt an analysis of the development of a mind when the evidence consists largely in lists of books read. On the books which Gladstone read, he seldom commented in the Diary. When rarely he added a comment, it is always important.
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3 Unfinished autobiographical fragment, 26 July 1894.
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16 ‘As it is impossible to treat of the great work of Dante without entering into its theology, so it is impossible to discuss with propriety the consideration of its theology until after having considered with some care the place which the Blessed Virgin Mary occupies in the poem…’British Library, Add. MSS. 44731, 134ff.
17 Away, away, you are unhallowed.
18 Who made me pass into an ecstasy of mind.
19 On Heroes and Hero Worship (1896 edn), 111, 123, 151.
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