Events from season to season are taken to teach sinister lessons, that the Real is the only Rational, force is the test of right and wrong, the state has nothing to do with restraints of morals, the ruler is emancipated.
This quote critiques the moral implications of political power and the justification of force in governance.
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Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
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