Was parliament now to affirm and record a finding that it had scrupulously abstained from ever making its own, and without regard to the counter-allegation that more crime and worse crime was prevented by agitation?
Morley questions whether Parliament should acknowledge its previous inaction regarding crime and agitation in Ireland.
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An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
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.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
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