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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