The question is whether there is no one of the 300 millions of the population of India, who is competent to be the officially-constituted adviser of the Governor-General in Council in the administration of Indian affairs.
Morley questions the lack of competent advisers from India's vast population for the Governor-General's Council.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…
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