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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The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
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.
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.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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