LORD SHAFTESBURY THE SEVENTH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY BY J. L. HAMMOND AND BARBARA HAMMOND PREFACE SHAFTESBURY was out of the general run of statesmen and politicians yet there are few statesmen of the nineteenth century to whom England owes more in the way of solid and lasting benefit for the general mass of her population. He is one of a remarkable band of Englishmen who busied themselves with politics, not with the object most usual with politicians, in order to carry out the business of the country in accordance with the views of some political party and by means of the responsibility of office, but simply in order to carry into effect certain definite views of their own, quite outside the creed of any party in the State. In this band should be included men like Wilberforce, with his zeal for the emancipation of negro slaves Cobbett, the tribune of tlje agricultural labourer Bright and Cobden, of the antiCorn Law League Plimsoll, scornful of the ameni ties of parliamentary...

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