John Morley: “The article in the Quarterly is clever; and what it says, moreover, on the merits of the income-tax is true.”

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

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

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

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.