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 16. BOWEN: THE VICTORIAN PERIOD 557 Common Pleas, Jervis, Erie, Maule, Willes ; at the Exchequer, Abinger, Pollock, Kelly, Parke, Alderson ; at the Privy Council, Kingsdown ; Cresswell in the Probate and Divorce Court, Lushington at the Admiralty. Transplanted to the House of Lords, or raised to the Privy Council, Lords Pen- zance, Blackburn, Bramwell, Sir John Mellor, Sir Henry Keating, Sir Montague Smith, and Sir James Bacon remain to remind us of the glories of courts now extinct. Apart from the luminaries of the Bench, the Bar of England looks back with pride on the memory of FoUett, Karslake, Benjamin. The roll of the legal heroes of the past is always healthily inspiriting. It nerves those who come after — in the language of the Poet Laureate — to Push off and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows. For much always is left to be accomplished. There is and can be no such thing as finality about the administration of the law. It changes, it must change, it ought to change, with the broadening wants and requirements of a growing country, and with the gradual illumination of the public conscience.