John Morley: “There has never been an abuse in the history of the world, for which…”

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There has never been an abuse in the history of the world, for which something good could not be said.

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Morley reflects on the tendency of people to find justifications for abuses throughout history.

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We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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John Morley: “There has never been an abuse in the history of the world, for which something good could not be said.”