John Morley: “Reform, however, was the fighting question, and fighting questions absorb a legislature.”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.