John Morley: “Important classes among you, representing ideas that have been fostered and encouraged by British rule, claim equality…”

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…