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The article focuses on the book "The Life-Work of Lord Avebury," edited by Adrian Grant Duff, on Lord Avebury, of the Renaissance ideal of gentleman and scholar. Lord Avebury was endowed with charming dignity, courtly hospitality and gracious powers of statesmanship. He had keen interest in science as well. Due to drawbacks of his education in Eton, England, Lord Avebury's devoted work for reform in English education was directed towards the introduction of science teaching in every sort and kind of school. The chapter on his educational work is seen as a direct corollary to his scientific work. He concentrated on scientific research in his leisure time. His main duty from the early age at which he left Eton, was to assist his father to carry on a banking business. He was immensely influenced by Charles Darwin, and this made him carry on his research work happily from early morning to late night. Finally the perusal of this book leaves one with a puzzled recognition of the continuity of science, the discontinuity of politics. Lord Avebury died in 1913. |
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