Excerpt from Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 2: 1868-1880 Yet blood told. Through all his literary and scientific culture there ran a vein as distinct as an outcrop in geological strata. He always knew before hand what would be the squire's view of any proposed legislation and, except where it involved the indolent plea of privilege which never appealed to him, he always sympathised with it. Though he Shared not at all in the sporting pleasures of the country and only exotically in its interests, he had an instinctive understanding of the men who lived there, - distrusted, as they did, the teachings of theory; was suspicious, with them, of the claims of book-learnedness even where reason compelled him to accept its conclusions; and, though sometimes critical of their methods of conducting their business, was always ready to spring to arms by their side at the first threat of external interference in its concerns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.