But, like Granville, I consider that the offence does not consist in holding certain opinions, of which in my judgment the political force and effect are greatly exaggerated, but in the attitude assumed, and the tone and colour given to the speech.
Morley critiques the tone and attitude of a political speech, emphasizing the importance of how opinions are expressed.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
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.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
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