To nobody in this world, by habit, by education, by experience, by views expressed in political affairs for a great many years past, to nobody is exceptional repression, more distasteful than it is to me.
Morley expresses his deep aversion to exceptional repression, highlighting his values and political stance.
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Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
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