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Its pet idea is what they call construction,—that is to say, taking into the hands of the state the business of the individual man.
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John Morley
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Morley expresses concern over the state's increasing involvement in individual affairs, which he refers to as 'construction.'
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If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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