John Morley: “For the thing contemplated is the very thing that the parliament was elected not to do.”

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

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.