In every change of political machinery the reformer promises and expects a new heaven and a new earth; then standing forces of national tradition, character, and institution assert their strength, our millennium lags, and the chilled enthusiast sighs.
Morley critiques the unrealistic expectations reformers have regarding political change.
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We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
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