John Morley: “But, as we have seen, military service was only made obligatory on those who were already ground down by hardships.”

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

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.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.