It unfortunately went too far in this direction, by fostering the strongest possible motives of hostility to such modifications in these gigantic departments as changing circumstances might make needful, in the breasts of the only men who could produce these modifications without a violent organic revolution.
Morley warns that excessive resistance to necessary reforms can lead to stagnation in society's development.
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