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The main point is this: that setting aside exceptional circumstances which would have to provide for themselves, my prospective work is not parliamentary.
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Morley reflects on his future work outside of parliamentary duties, emphasizing a shift in focus.
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But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
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