John Morley: “Irishmen became the most welcome speakers on British platforms, and for the first time in all our history they got a…”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.