It seems pretty likely that Gladstone would have been happy to claim Well, he did write a book titled The Ethnology of the Greek Races. Victorians had a fairly

It seems pretty likely that Gladstone would have been happy to claim Well, he did write a book titled The Ethnology of the Greek Races. Victorians had a fairly different, more granular notion of 'race' but most of them took racial determinism as a given, they were fundamentally racist in the most literal sense. They came up with stuff like this, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_race