Bertrand Russell on William Ewart Gladstone

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  • @bayquell7587
    @bayquell7587 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    This man lived through two world wars, near nuclear annihilation and met Lenin, but meeting Gladstone was the most terrifying experience of his life. Amazing

    • @bawbtherevelator6445
      @bawbtherevelator6445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Gladstone sounds like a slave owner who's terrified he'll lose all his slaves

    • @bayquell7587
      @bayquell7587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@bawbtherevelator6445 Gladstone's father owned slaves and Gladstone quite early in his life turned his back on that to pursue a classical liberalism and placed individual moral conscience above all. He also critized exploitation of ethnic groups by governments and was widely known for this (see his Bulgarian atrocities writing). I assume you're either very young or like to become attached to simplistic ideas to make yourself feel morally superior. A bit of self guided research and allowing for nuance go a long way. Gladstone was far morally superior in his life to either you or I and did more to empower people than maybe any politician in history. But yeah, because he was born before 1950 he must have been a white supremacist.

    • @DellDuckfan313
      @DellDuckfan313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@bayquell7587 Not to mention, Gladstone was pushing for Irish Home Rule when nobody else would. He was more than happy to let them go.

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bawbtherevelator6445 You're wrong Bakewell is right

    • @bawbtherevelator6445
      @bawbtherevelator6445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@trajan75 Amazingly this is the first time I've been wrong in 83 years - but thanks all the same LOL

  • @peterhall6656
    @peterhall6656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I was once acting cabinet minute secretary (not in UK) and got to see senior politicians who cultivated a Gladstonian demeanour. It was all about scaring the cowards which most politicians are. It works until they come up against someone who is actually far tougher than they look and you can't always predict that. It is fascinating to watch.

    • @b.alexanderjohnstone9774
      @b.alexanderjohnstone9774 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And what about the presence nowadays of so many women in politics? That must also change the dynamic. Thanks for your comment, unique insight and very interesting.

  • @austinbundrick3192
    @austinbundrick3192 6 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I love how he imitates Gladstone.

    • @theart8039
      @theart8039 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Probably a good impersonation ..closest we'll probably ever get to know the man

  • @starrgazer1000
    @starrgazer1000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I had the great pleasure of meeting Gladstones' great great great granddaughter in May 2000. She bought me a drink and I opted for a glass of wine. She owns a bistro in Earls Court called the Troubadour. I don't know after twenty years if she is still there and in the hospitality business. She has a cut glass voice but she always tries to hide it and mingle with the rest of the crowd and customers. I liked her immediately but she is always too busy to get involved with her lineage and politics. I believe it was Gladstone who stood up in a debate on homosexuality in the House of Commons that was very taboo in those early years. In defence of it he said 'I don't care what they do as long as they don't do in the High Street and frighten the horses'. He was such a realist and liberal man way ahead of his time.
    Peter
    LONDON

  • @owenmcgee8496
    @owenmcgee8496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    these interviews with Russell are good. candid observations are often the most interesting because they are more vivid. brings a subject to life.

  • @101MRSPICE
    @101MRSPICE ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Scots Prime Minsters Arthur Balfour, Campebll Bannerman, and Gladstone would not tolerate how Great Britain has been let down by Johnson, Mogg, Truss, Sunak and the Tory Party in general, these Scottish PMs had diligence, character, and the trust of the people sad days for GB.

  • @riddlers91
    @riddlers91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Imagine if this guy had a podcast..

    • @charlesedwards4160
      @charlesedwards4160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's got one now and we love it courtesy of TH-cam.

    • @MichaelKingsfordGray
      @MichaelKingsfordGray 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine if you could recall your real name!

    • @saph100
      @saph100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He kind of did have the closest thing to a podcast at the time.

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "It is my mission in life to save fallen women"-W.E Gladstone
    "Save one for me, will you?"- Charles Stewart Parnell.
    "And me!"- Charles Dilke

  • @randyrobey5643
    @randyrobey5643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Ciceronian method of organizing speeches still works today. I taught it in my college rhetoric and composition classes.

  • @rikurodriguesneto6043
    @rikurodriguesneto6043 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    "whether it was worthwhile to have Ciceronian syntax in your head, and not understand the modern world, is another question" xD

  • @GeoffreyBronson
    @GeoffreyBronson ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "I had a grandmother who was terrifying in the sort of way that great ladies were in those days...absolutely terrifying. I'd seen her make footman weep".
    Good grief

  • @commandervonbruning4304
    @commandervonbruning4304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    "So yeah, I had dinner with Mr. Gladstone."
    "NO WAY BRO! What did you say?"
    "Oh, nothing, I was too scared."
    "Huh, alright then, what did *he* say?"
    "'THIS IS VERY GOOD PORT, BUT WHY HAVE THEY GIVEN IT TO ME IN A TINY GLASS?'"
    "..."

    • @MacJaxonManOfAction
      @MacJaxonManOfAction 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@monsieurali8484 *Claret glass

    • @profd65
      @profd65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I swear the only reason people click on videos anymore is to make stupid jokes.

    • @ozzbud9049
      @ozzbud9049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@profd65 Or to try to make smart points, or observations!!

  • @meissnerflux
    @meissnerflux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Even Gladstone's "eye", as it were, is strikingly intense in photograph alone. He must have been a rare figure in real life. Theres a brief recording of his voice out there, which sounds fitting to his purported presence.
    Near the end of video, the connection to a certain unique syntax and Cicero is very interesting!

    • @postscript67
      @postscript67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Be careful: there are two Edison recordings purporting to be Gladstone. One is very faint and the other, more commonly-found one, is thought to be an imitation produced by Edison or his representative to make up for the shortcomings of the other.

  • @nicoladisvevia
    @nicoladisvevia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What I didn't know but have now learned is that the great man - I am, of course, referring to Bertrand Russell - had a wicked sense of humour!

  • @malfattio2894
    @malfattio2894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    It's interesting hearing a second-hand account of something that happened in the 1830s

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Russell was born in 1872, and Gladstone died in 1898, so our range of possibility seems to exclude the 1830s.

    • @shehannanayakkara4162
      @shehannanayakkara4162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Gorboduc Second hand. Gladstone was born in 1809

  • @BinanceUSD
    @BinanceUSD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Gladstone was an amazing man did so much for liberty and individual freedom

    • @vincentvangogh8092
      @vincentvangogh8092 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      didn't he say Gladstone wanted to preserve slavery lol

    • @Darius1295
      @Darius1295 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vincentvangogh8092 I'm sure he changed his mind before becoming Prime Minister.

    • @robertpirsig5011
      @robertpirsig5011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      As an Irish man, I believe he was one of the few who tried. I think a good man.

    • @Relugus
      @Relugus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vincentvangogh8092 That's how he started, but he changed and grew as a person.

    • @garywintle8023
      @garywintle8023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vincentvangogh8092 In his early life. He changed. By the end he was campaigning for Irish Home Rule.

  • @freebornjohn2687
    @freebornjohn2687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    We need people like Bertie Russell now, not for his specific beliefs but that he was prepared to examine a subject in good faith and was prepared to change his mind, but sadly many people are unquestioning and live up to his view “Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!”

    • @freebornjohn2687
      @freebornjohn2687 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Poltiticslogicallyreformed. I think you need to go back and read more.

  • @shield543
    @shield543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Russel was right about the Ciceronian syntax, you really can't find very many people who can communicate face to face in that way, especially on this side of the millennium let alone when Russel was alive. It's one thing to be able to have a way with words when writing, but to do so while talking requires you to either have a really fast thinking mind, or to have learnt to speak like that from very young

    • @wordcell_.on.twitter
      @wordcell_.on.twitter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When I saw your comment it seemed so promising, I thought it was going to be a perspective on Russel's final statement on the matter, rather than rehashing what he had said. Any thoughts on that matter?

    • @theweirdofengland
      @theweirdofengland 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think it's clear there has been a decline in education over the last century. It's amazing to hear of people in former days who could speak like Gladstone and knew a dozen languages like Ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Now that sort of education is reserved to a handful of Etonians.

    • @Wimbold
      @Wimbold 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theweirdofengland Back in the day education as a whole was restricted to a mere handful.

    • @trenttrip6205
      @trenttrip6205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Matt Washer education has improved vastly over time, the average person today is exponentially more educated than the average person a century ago, but it is interesting that the particularly "concentrated" types of education Russell refers to are mostly gone, rich kids don't learn 10 languages today

    • @valeriemacphail9180
      @valeriemacphail9180 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wimbold That QUALITY of education still is!

  • @CaptainGrimes1
    @CaptainGrimes1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    God the people he's met from Gladstone to Lenin...

    • @uttaradit2
      @uttaradit2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      from flintstone to gladstone

  • @thecelticdruid.6681
    @thecelticdruid.6681 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My childhood in Bargoed, Wales was named after him. "Gladstone Villa".

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    People can't handle words the way these men could. Yes, I can see that.

    • @أفلاكالأفكار
      @أفلاكالأفكار 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ironically, Russell was a critic of the very education that gave men then such a wonderful control of the English language.
      Unfortunately the same sickness spreads here, with people questioning the importance of studying, learning, and memorizing pre-Islamic poetry from over 1400 years ago, not realizing that depriving people of a large vocabulary and command of language reduces them to barbarous inability to express themselves, and thus causes them to resort to short swear words and greatly degrades the public discourse.
      Unfortunately, we have allowed technology to delude us into thinking that we are so much more civilized and intelligent than those before us

    • @ulrikjensen6841
      @ulrikjensen6841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They could make hour-long speeches without mikes in great crowded halls.

  • @randolphscott3361
    @randolphscott3361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Went into parliament to uphold slavery but worried about travelling to parliament on a Sunday. It’s impossible to use modern values to judge the actions and motives of the great men of the past.

    • @shivill2236
      @shivill2236 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One thing you left out is that Gladstone later said what he was doing was wrong and told people that the abolition of slavery was the greatest thing to have happened in the 19th century. He recognised his own wrongs and admitted to it later in life.

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS (29 December 1809 - 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.
    In a career lasting over sixty years, he served for twelve years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894.
    He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times.
    Gladstone was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents.
    He first entered the House of Commons in 1832, beginning his political career in the Conservative Party as a High Tory.
    Gladstone served as a minister in both of Robert Peel's governments, and in 1846 joined the breakaway Peelite faction, which eventually merged into the new Liberal Party in 1859.
    He was Chancellor under Lord Aberdeen (1852-1855), Lord Palmerston (1859-1865), and Lord Russell (1865-1866).
    Gladstone's own political doctrine-which emphasised equality of opportunity, free trade, and laissez-faire economic policies-came to be known as Gladstonian liberalism.
    His popularity amongst the working-class earned him the sobriquet "The People's William".
    In 1868, Gladstone became Prime Minister for the first time.
    Many reforms were passed during his first ministry, including the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting.
    After electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned as Leader of the Liberal Party; but from 1876 he began a comeback based on opposition to Turkey's reaction to the Bulgarian April Uprising.
    His Midlothian Campaign of 1879-80 was an early example of many modern political campaigning techniques.
    After the 1880 general election, Gladstone formed his second ministry (1880-1885), which saw the passage of the Third Reform Act as well as crises in Egypt (culminating in the Fall of Khartoum) and Ireland, where the government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers.
    Back in office in early 1886, Gladstone proposed home rule for Ireland but was defeated in the House of Commons.
    The resulting split in the Liberal Party helped keep them out of office-with one short break-for twenty years.
    Gladstone formed his last government in 1892, at the age of 82.
    The Second Home Rule Bill passed through the House of Commons but was defeated in the House of Lords in 1893.
    Gladstone left office in March 1894, aged 84, as both the oldest person to serve as Prime Minister and the only Prime Minister to have served four terms.
    He left parliament in 1895 and died three years later.
    Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "The People's William" or the "G.O.M." ("Grand Old Man", or, according to his political rival Benjamin Disraeli, "God's Only Mistake").
    Historians often call him one of the greatest leaders in British history.
    A.J.P. Taylor has stated, " William Ewart Gladstone was the greatest political figure of the nineteenth century. I do not mean by that that he was necessarily the greatest statesman, certainly not the most successful. What I mean is that he dominated the scene."

    • @francismuiruri9064
      @francismuiruri9064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Always thought he was English descent though it does not matter.

    • @Valhalla88888
      @Valhalla88888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gladstone parents from Scotland just bad luck his father had a business in your he considered himself Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @garryferrington811
      @garryferrington811 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He got into politics to uphold slavery in Jamaica.

    • @ds1868
      @ds1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@garryferrington811 wrong.

    • @trevormillar1576
      @trevormillar1576 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He only got the job because Henry Cavendish , Viscount Hartington, the actual leader of the Liberal Party, wasn't interested.

  • @ShroomRPG
    @ShroomRPG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It's fascinating to hear an account of something that happened in 1889

  • @bandolero5068
    @bandolero5068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I could listen to BR for ages.

  • @b.alexanderjohnstone9774
    @b.alexanderjohnstone9774 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ladies left the dinner table first and the men, usually a group of equal size, were then thrown together for a time so this would have been awkward for just two, and one a youth. This practice was not sexist but was intended to give the ladies a window of time to go to the bathroom.

  • @fatehsherrajput5421
    @fatehsherrajput5421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i could not make out what gladstone said to russell, can anyone help?

    • @priyaxo8116
      @priyaxo8116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "This is very good port they have given me,but why have they given it me in a claret glass?"

    • @fatehsherrajput5421
      @fatehsherrajput5421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@priyaxo8116 thanks

  • @florenceoztas6186
    @florenceoztas6186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating stuff !

  • @doonewatts7155
    @doonewatts7155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Genius apart what a lovely man

  • @tonymcmahon_historybear
    @tonymcmahon_historybear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If Russell was 17 years old when he met Gladstone -then that would have been in the last year of Gladstone's life. Just as an FYI.

    • @trenttrip6205
      @trenttrip6205 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gladstone had declined quite a bit at that age, dont think he had any teeth left. If that was the impression he left on Russell at 88 he must have been quite something in middle age

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ciceronian syntax be damned; I wonder what the Old Boy would make of our ‘Kardashians’ syntax today?!

  • @callumfrench163
    @callumfrench163 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whether it was good to have Pre reformation syntax in one’s head and not understand the contemporary world is another question.
    Awesome

  • @JasonJason210
    @JasonJason210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Reminds me of Rowley Birkin QC.

  • @jayd4ever
    @jayd4ever 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    gladstone was great pm

  • @caeserromero3013
    @caeserromero3013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The reason the gave him a small glass, Bert, was so he wouldn't get p1553d. ..

    • @priyaxo8116
      @priyaxo8116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "claret glass"

  • @ericellis3506
    @ericellis3506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don't know if Gladstone ever crossed paths with J P Morgan, but I would have loved to been the fly on the wall..Both had the "Death stare".

  • @DanielClementYoga
    @DanielClementYoga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Russell was hilarious!

  • @GrumpyL5
    @GrumpyL5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting final comment

  • @trajan75
    @trajan75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I studied Cicero for 3rd year Latin. A lot of kids who went to Catholic High School did. The only one I ever met who really enjoyed him was Judge Michael Corriero who sits on the program "Hot Bench", Next time I see him I'll have to ask him why.

    • @أفلاكالأفكار
      @أفلاكالأفكار 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Salve! Linguam Latinam amo!
      Sed eam disco de libro "Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata" (et tiro sum)

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@أفلاكالأفكار Disces

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@أفلاكالأفكار Labor omnia vincit

  • @charleshendrix232
    @charleshendrix232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We went from his ilk to Trump’s in a fairly short timeframe. Whereto now St. Peter?

  • @uttaradit2
    @uttaradit2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cicero or the modern world ??

  • @clacclackerson3678
    @clacclackerson3678 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gold.

  • @theart8039
    @theart8039 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wasn't it Gladstone who objected to trains because of the movements of the "Masses"

  • @ozzyb663
    @ozzyb663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bertrand Russell !

  • @christophergould8715
    @christophergould8715 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is no equivalent of Gladstone in the modern world except perhaps Fidel Castro.Gladstones ovations going on for hours were delivered to men many of whom left school at twelve or fourteen.Nowadays we have a large graduate population but a speech lasting more than five minutes would try the population.

  • @aabill1950
    @aabill1950 ปีที่แล้ว

    Needs better subtitles by someone British. Subtitles here are only appproximate.

  • @christophergould8715
    @christophergould8715 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oration not ovations

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nonsense. Gladstone was a sweetheart.

  • @christophergould8715
    @christophergould8715 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ovations not ovations

  • @bushit123456
    @bushit123456 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was so terrifying about him?

  • @salamandiusbraveheart4183
    @salamandiusbraveheart4183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Can't understand what this guy is saying

    • @onsenguy
      @onsenguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      he's speaking very clear, proper english.

    • @charlesedwards4160
      @charlesedwards4160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think you need to go back to school then as he's speaking as clear cut through cut glass and polished an accent as I've ever heard it.. William Ewart Gladstone. May 2022.

    • @jb47vintage
      @jb47vintage 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, well we speak proper 'Murican. But Russell's a good ol' boy, sure as day.

  • @comprehensiveboy
    @comprehensiveboy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Defending Slavery. How disgusting.

    • @danielkellyuk
      @danielkellyuk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      When he was a Tory in his early 20s and still under his father's influence. He became far more liberal as he grew older.

    • @comprehensiveboycomprehens8786
      @comprehensiveboycomprehens8786 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Daniel Kelly Yes, I gather. Russell shows his distaste in an oblique way here. Still, slavery is often thought of as belonging to the distant past but here is the voice of a man whose life overlapped with mine yet met a man whose family owned slaves. Truly, we live here in england in a country as the descendents, some of us, of people who brutalised and exploited their fellow human beings in almost inhuman and psychopathic ways. This is not noble, echoing the classical world in some way, it is bestial! We should be wary of revenge .......

    • @normankendall329
      @normankendall329 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@comprehensiveboycomprehens8786 You say these things like there was some place in the world where people did not brutalize and exploit their neighbors. Instead of focusing on the failings of our ancestors maybe you could take some comfort in the steps that they took to improve the conditions of humanity. White men voted in parliament to end slavery and to extend the vote to women.

    • @meissnerflux
      @meissnerflux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Typing on a phone/PC made with parts mined by [essentially] slaves?

    • @fatpotatoe6039
      @fatpotatoe6039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@meissnerflux Et tu, Brute?