John Morley: “In a people of bold and martial temper such as are the people of our island, this proved to be a miscalculation.”

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.