For as he interprets knowledge to be the conformity of our ideas to facts, has there not been a clearly recognisable progress in the improved conformity of our ideas to the most momentous facts of all, the various circumstances of human action, its motives and consequences?
Morley reflects on the evolution of human understanding in relation to significant facts and actions.
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How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
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