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 apply force to others, but was also able and willing to take himself the last infinite consequences. He hated in his life the cowardice of others, in the theatre of war he was the best-loved of his soldiers, and he accepted death as the close of a career, whose gigantic worth was too absolute for it to have attained to maturity in our days.

It was a satisfying sign that the Government took the sharpest vengeance on the murder.

One may think as one will of the tragedy of Tisza. One may condemn and execrate him as a politician—and far it lies from ms to wish to accept him politically. But, as a man, such an opponent is more to me than a thousand creeping friends—of whom he, unfortunately, possessed only too many. To me this death at the hand of violence is a proof of his greatness.