John Morley: “You will have been amused to see that on Friday the Times actually put me up for prime minister, and yesterday knocked…”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

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.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.