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Title: Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838-1914 MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament Statesmen
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ionary appeal of that soft andhumble rat-tat-tat it would be impossible to resist;and accordingly, at a nod from the Speaker, the dooris flung open and in walks Black Rod to deliver hisblameless message. What, then, is the meaning of this slamming ofthe door of the House of Commons in Black Rodsinoffensive face? Why must he wait submissivelyand humbly knock three times for admission to theChamber before it is granted? It is a time-honouredand significant demonstration of the right of therepresentatives of the people to conduct their delibera-tions in secret, should they deem it necessary, and toshut their doors especially against the messengers ofsovereigns or peers. These three solemn knocks of Black Rod on th(>door of the House of Commons in truth recall manymomentous Parliamentary incidents in the long andbitter struggle for constitutional liberty. We mayhear them only in fancy, but they thrill us like atrumpet call, and set the impulses of our ancestorsstirring within us still.
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SIR RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE JEBB. The popular idea of the House of Commons is too oftenmerely that of a body of men of conflicting politicalopinions. Such a conception of the House falls veryfar short of its due. It is something greater than that.Anyone who examines the composition of the Member-slaip of the House, as set out in the Parliamentaryreference books, will see how representative it is, notonly of the political opinions of the Nation, but ofthe Nations intellect, learning, science, its practicalexperience, its business capacity and enterprise. Thusthere is at the disposal of the House a vast andvaried mass of knowledge and observation to drawupon in the discussion of the concerns of the Empire.High among the representatives of scholarship inthe House was Sir Richard Jebb, one of the repre-sentatives of Cambridge University, and its RegiusProfessor of Greek up to the time of his death inDecember, 1905. In the consideration of questionsof education, esjDecially, his trained intell

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