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But we assured the Boers that we would take the earliest opportunity of granting to them the freest and most complete local institutions compatible with the welfare of South Africa.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “But we assured the Boers that we would take the earliest opportunity of granting to them the freest and most complete…”
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Morley assures the Boers of the British commitment to grant them local governance.
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But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
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.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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