John Morley: “Of that best kind of eloquence which dispenses with declamation, this was a fine and sustained example.”

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.