Excerpt from Mr. Gladstone's Religious Development: A Paper Read in Christ Church, May 5, 1899At eleven, William Gladstone went to Eton. The Public Schools of England, even after seventy years of strenuous reform, leave a good deal' to be desired in the way of faith and morals and what they were in the first quarter of the century we know from contemporary records. Public Schools are the seats and nurseries of vice, was written in a religious diary, and I have no reason to think that the judgment was too severe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.