ABSTRACT
The statesman of the rising generation who seeks the true key to political power, will find it most readily by studying the career and character of Lord Palmerston. The long public life of the great man whom people have just lost carries people over nearly sixty years of almost invariable success. In a parliamentary government like our own, it is commonly taken for granted that any man of great political eminence must be not only a party man, but the recognised and hearty leader of the party to which he professes to belong. Still more so, if his eminence is ministerial. It would be impossible to name any other man than Lord Palmerston whose life has been a contradictory illustration to this principle. Lord Palmerston, however, was a statesman who set all these precedents and principles at successful defiance. He never was a party man in the sense in which Lord Russell would understand the term.
