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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I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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