John Morley: “I feel that in being party to this work I have been a labourer in the cause of peace.”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

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.

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

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.