A desire to remove causes of difference between ourselves and the United States grew at a remarkable speed, for the spectacle of success is wont to have magical effects even in minds that would indignantly reject the standards of Machiavelli.
Morley describes the rapid growth of a desire to resolve differences with the United States, influenced by the success of the North.
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Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
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