John Morley: “I watch the expenditure of Indian revenue as the ferocious dragon of the old mythology watched the golden apples.”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.