A perfect method places a man where he can command one point of view as well as the other, and can discern not only how far an idea is true and convenient, but also how, whether true and convenient or otherwise, it came into its place in men's minds.
Here, Morley advocates for a balanced perspective that considers both the truth of ideas and their historical emergence.
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We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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