But the whole question of the position which Ireland will assume after the general election is so new, so difficult, and as yet, I think, so little understood, that it seems most important to reserve until the proper time all possible liberty of examining it.
Morley reflects on the complexities of Ireland's political situation during a pivotal election period.
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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.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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