John Morley: “Natural death is as it were a haven and a rest to us after long navigation.”

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.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.