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Let us make what choice we will of this or that particular achievement, how splendid a list it is of benefits conferred and public work effectually performed.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Morley reflects on the impressive list of achievements that Gladstone accomplished during his political career.
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But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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.
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