It was a claim less of humanity than of bare justice, that the landowners should do something for men with whom their relations had been so close as to be almost domestic, and to whose hard toil their masters owed all that they possessed.
Morley emphasizes the moral obligation of landowners to support their tenants, highlighting the close relationship between them.
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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.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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