In the interests of India, to say nothing of our own national honour, in the name of duty and of common sense, our first and commanding task is to keep order and to quell violences among race and creed; sternly to insist on the impartial application of rules of justice, independent of European or of Indian.
Morley argues for the necessity of maintaining order and justice in India as a primary obligation of British rule.
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