Are we to suppose for a minute that men of this great station and authority and responsibility are going to issue a lettre de cachet for A.B., C.D., or E.F., without troubling themselves whether that lettre de cachet is wisely issued or not?
Morley questions the authority's decision-making process regarding deportations, emphasizing the need for careful consideration.
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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.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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