They are committed when a strong impetus of right carries them up to a certain point, and a residue of that impetus, drawn from the contact with human passion and infirmity, pushes them beyond it.
Morley describes how strong moral impulses can lead individuals to make errors when influenced by human emotions.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
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.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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