It is not his knowledge that attracts; it is not his ethical tests and standards; it is not that dialectical strength of arm which, as Mark Pattison said of him, could twist a bar of iron to its purpose.
Morley emphasizes that true attraction lies not in knowledge alone but in a combination of sincerity and mental strength.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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