How much dearer to us than the splendid monuments of antique taste, power, and greatness, are those Gothic edifices reared for the poor and the orphan, those far nobler monuments of the piety of Christian princes and the power of Christian faith.
Morley expresses a preference for Gothic architecture built for the needy over ancient monuments of power.
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The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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.
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