...thinking, and it contains, not a picture, but a subtle and many-sided presentment of the Protector as he really was, with all his physical and moral...greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time. Gardiner's English is not energetic and clumsy like Grote's ; but it has been justly charged with some...

...who by no means is a favourable critic of all the policy of Cromwell, sums him up in these words : "It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...because the most typical Englishman of all time." But there is one testimony which I regard as more valuable because — I cannot say it is more unbiassed...

...painted him as a devil. Oarlyle painted him as the masterful saint who suited his peculiar Valhalla. _ It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...in the most enduring sense, is Cromwell's place in historyHe stands there, not to be implicitly followed as a model, but to hold up a mirror to ourselves,...

...Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, n. 340; id., Cromwell's Place in History, p. 84. 2 'in the world of action what Shakespeare was in the...greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time' : ib., pp. 1 15 f. Professor Ernest Barker uses the same comparison in British Statesmen, p. 40; cf....

...without hope of revival." And again, on page 115, Dr. Gardiner says in words worth remembering : " It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...tenderness and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action *hat Shakespeare was in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all...