John Morley: “It was in fact a counter-irritant; and it aroused the sense of commercial interest to counteract the war passion.”

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.