Without bringing back the cosmopolitanism of the eighteenth century, without sharing all the idealisms of the middle of the nineteenth, he resisted with his whole might the odious contention that moral progress in the relations of nations and states to one another is an illusion and a dream.
Morley defends the belief in moral progress in international relations against cynicism.
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If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
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