John Morley: “Die since we must, wherefore should a man sit idle and nurse in the gloom days of long life without aim, without name?”

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

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.

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

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.