John Morley: “Thank God that up to a certain point the indications on this great controversy are decidedly favourable.”

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

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.