John Morley: “Now, if that be so, I am very sorry for democracy.”

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?