John Morley: “Gladstone was able to use wise and bold finance as the lever for enlarging all the facilities of life, and diffusing…”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

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.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.