John Morley: “To follow the extension of the franchise by coercion, would have been…”

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To follow the extension of the franchise by coercion, would have been a gross inconsistency.

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Morley argues that using coercion to extend the franchise would contradict the principles of justice.

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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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John Morley: “To follow the extension of the franchise by coercion, would have been a gross inconsistency.”