In our own day communities and men who lead them have still to learn that no waste is so profuse and immeasurable, even from the material point of view, as that of intellectual energy, checked, uncultivated, ignored, or left without its opportunity.
Morley emphasizes the immense loss of intellectual potential when individuals are not given the opportunity to thrive.
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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?
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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