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In The Map of Life ( 1899 ) he discussed in a popular style some of the ethical problems which arise in everyday life.

In 1903 he published a revised and greatly enlarged edition of Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, in two volumes, from which the essay on Swift was omitted and that on O ' Connell was expanded into a complete biography of the great advocate of repeal of the Union.

Though always a keen sympathizer with the Irish people in their misfortunes and aspirations and he had criticized severely the methods by which the Act of Union was passed, Lecky, who grew up as a moderate Liberal, was from the first strenuously opposed to William Ewart Gladstone's policy of Home Rule and, in 1895, he was returned to parliament as Unionist member for Dublin University in a by-election.

In 1897, he was made a privy councillor, and among the coronation honours in 1902, he was nominated an original member of the new Order of Merit.