John Morley: “Gladstone thought that freedom was the answer; what path the others would have us tread, neither Ruskin nor his stormy…”

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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.

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.