Also, I said that in my opinion, from all the miscarriages attending the past history of this question, not ministries alone, and leaders of parties, nor parties alone, but parliament itself and parliamentary government were discredited.
Morley critiques the failures of parliamentary government and the discredit it has faced due to past mistakes.
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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.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
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