He was alive to the extent to which England’s power in Europe was reduced by the smothered quarrel with America, but he took even higher ground than this in his sense of the blessing to the world of an absolute reconciliation in good faith between the old England and the new.
Morley reflects on the importance of reconciliation between England and America, emphasizing its global significance.
Share
More from John Morley
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
Other voices in this conversation
