John Morley: “Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.”

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

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.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.