John Morley: “The question, What is education? was nearly as hard to answer as the question of which we have seen so much, What is a…”

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.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

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.