GLADSTONIAN GHOSTS,
By CECIL CHESTERTON.
GLADSTONIAN GHOSTS.
BY
CECIL CHESTERTON.
PRINTED BY THE LANTHORN
PRESS, AND PUBLISHED IN
LONDON BY S. C. BROWN
LANGHAM & CO., LTD.
CONTENTS.
DEDICATION
TO
EDGAR JEPSON.
[Pg 7]
DEDICATION.
My dear Jepson,
If (with your permission) I dedicatethis essay in political criticism toyou, it is because I know that, thoughyou parade it less, your interest in thescience of politics is fully as keen asmy own. In point of fact there is no-onewhose judgment in these matters Iwould trust more readily than yours.You are a philosopher; and the philosopher’soutlook in politics is alwaysclear, practical and realistic as contrastedwith the thoroughly romanticillusions of the typical party man.That, by the way, is why Mr. Balfour,the philosopher, has in the domain ofparliamentary and electoral strategy[Pg 8]hopelessly outwitted Mr. Chamberlain,the “man of business and busy man”—toquote his own characteristically poeticphrase.
As a philosopher you are able tosee what no “practical statesman”on either side of the House seems likelyto perceive—that social and economicpolitics are the only kind of politic