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Young Gladstone and Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

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Gladstone's Diary records all the books which he read and persons with whom he talked.

If a man read a book, it cannot be asserted with certainty that he was influenced by the book. Knowledge passed into the mind if it was interesting enough not to be forgotten. But it is a larger step to attempt an analysis of the development of a mind when the evidence consists largely in lists of books read. On the books which Gladstone read, he seldom commented in the Diary. When rarely he added a comment, it is always important.

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