John Morley: “But our duty, and it is a splendid duty, is to try.”

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.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.