John Morley: “When I am told that an Act of this kind is a restriction on the freedom of the Press, I do not accept it for a moment.”

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.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

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.