The bill on which the House of Commons eventually proceeded was a measure, I should suppose, without precedent or parallel, as, on the other hand it was, for the purpose of the hour, and as the work of a government in a decided minority, an extraordinary stroke of parliamentary success.
Morley describes a unique parliamentary bill that was a significant achievement for a minority government.
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A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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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