I hoped that the ministers would recognise the moral obligations to the subject races of the east, which we had in honour contracted as parties to the Crimean war and to the peace of Paris in 1856.
Morley expresses his hope that the British government would acknowledge its moral responsibilities towards oppressed Eastern populations.
Share
More from John Morley
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
Other voices in this conversation
