HENRY SIDGWICK MEMORIAL LECTURE by The Right Hon. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, M.P. [DELIVERED AT NEWNHAM COLLEGE, JANUARY 25, 1908] Cambridge at the University Press 1908 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. I must begin what I have to say with a warning and an apology. I must warn you that the present essay makes no pretence to be an adequate treatment of some compact and limited theme; but rather resembles those wandering trains of thought, where we allow ourselves the luxu

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