John Morley: “He agreed that distant colonies could only have their affairs administered by self-government.”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

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

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.