John Morley: “There are in Europe two great questions: the question called social and the question of nationalities....”

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.