Said that for the first time interest has moved away both from politics and theology, towards the vague something which they call social reform; and he thinks they won’t make much out of that in the way of permanent results.
Morley reflects on the shifting focus of society away from traditional politics and theology towards social reform, expressing skepticism about its effectiveness.
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People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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