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But in their hearts they know that their solid interest is bound up with the law and order that we preserve.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “But in their hearts they know that their solid interest is bound up with the law and order that we preserve.”
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Morley argues that the Indian people recognize their interests are tied to the stability provided by British rule.
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It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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