John Morley: “Is India with all its heterogeneous populations--is it moving slowly and steadily to new and undreamt of unity?”

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.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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