Let me now wind up this long story by saying that my desire in framing it has been simply to grasp the facts, and to set aside illusions which appear to me to prevail among sections of the liberal party, nowhere so much as in that section which believes itself to be the most enlightened.
Morley reflects on the need for clarity and truth within the liberal party's beliefs.
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Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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