John Morley: “This paradox—the most glaring of them all—habit and custom have made familiar, and familiarity might almost seem to have…”

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

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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.