If I have said that he had much in common with other distinguished men who were like him statesmen by profession, it has been by way of preface to what I have now to say; namely, that what has ever struck me in his character as a whole, was its distinctiveness.
Morley points out the distinctiveness of a character compared to other distinguished statesmen.
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My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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