It may be true that “if there were no blunders there would be no politics,” but when we have made full allowance for blunder, caprice, chance, folly, craft, still reason and the nature of things have a share.
Morley reflects on the role of mistakes and chance in politics, while still acknowledging the importance of reason.
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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.
Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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