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I think the impolicy amounts almost to madness especially for a country which carries with her, nestling in her bosom, the “standing menace” of the popedom....
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “I think the impolicy amounts almost to madness especially for a country which carries with her, nestling in her bosom…”
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Morley expresses his strong opinion on the political implications of the papacy in Italy.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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