Yet all evidence tends to show we are rather making administration less personal, though evidence also tends to show that the Indian people are peculiarly responsive to sympathy and personal influence.
Morley reflects on the nature of administration in India and the Indian people's response to personal influence.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
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