Gladstone’s speeches in his first Midlothian campaign were disparaged, as I have just said, as sentiment rather than politics, as sophistry not sound reason, as illusory enchantment not solid and subsisting truth.
Morley reflects on the criticism of Gladstone's speeches during his Midlothian campaign, emphasizing their perceived lack of substance.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
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.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
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