You might just as well say that, because a fur coat in Canada at certain times of the year is a truly comfortable garment, therefore a fur coat in the Deccan is just the very garment that you would be delighted to wear.
Morley uses a metaphor about clothing to illustrate the absurdity of applying policies across vastly different contexts.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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