John Morley: “All improvements have to be urged in apologetic, almost in supplicatory tones.”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.