But splendidly designed as was his work from the point of view of efficiency, he still left in India a state of things, when we look back upon it, that could not be held a satisfactory crowning of a brilliant and ambitious career.
Morley reflects on the shortcomings of Lord Curzon's efficient governance, suggesting it did not lead to satisfactory outcomes in India.
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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.
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