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My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.”
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Morley expresses his desire to thoroughly examine all aspects of the Irish question.
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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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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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