# Gladstonian Ghosts

Author: Chesterton, Cecil, 1879-1918

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65915

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gladstonian+Ghosts+Chesterton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If (with your permission) I dedicate this essay in political criticism to you, it is because I know that, though you parade it less, your interest in the science of politics is fully as keen as my own. In point of fact there is no-one whose judgment in these matters I would trust more readily than yours. You are a philosopher; and the philosopher’s outlook in politics is always clear, practical and realistic as contrasted with the thoroughly romantic illusions of the typical party man. That, by the way, is why Mr. Balfour, the philosopher, has in the domain of parliamentary and electoral strategy hopelessly outwitted Mr. Chamberlain, the “man of business and busy man”--to quote his own ch...

## Chapters

- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gladstonian-ghosts-65915/chapters/9/index.md)