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equipped in this direction than his great rival. He had larger and more genial sympathies, and his flowing, diffuse and digressive style was more apt to impress the mass of people

and fetch his arguments from considerations too purely moral and speculative to exert any considerable influence on public opinion. Hence the arguments by which he at-

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than the highly concentrated manner of Cairns. But his ecclesiastical subtlety again hampered his influence. The stream of didactic moral sentiment which runs through all his work is in itself an admirable quality: but he was apt in his speeches to quit the special ground for which they were intended.

tempted to support a conclusion were often far more conspicuously vulnerable and far more offensive to his adversaries than the conclusion As a lawwhich reformer he used alone them Selborne to establish. would take high rank in legal history. The great law reforms of Hrougham in 1832 and sub