This absorption, this excess, this constant ἄγαν is the fault of political life with its insatiable demands, which do not leave the smallest stock of moral energy unexhausted and available for other purposes....
Morley critiques the exhausting demands of political life, which drain moral energy and leave little for other pursuits.
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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
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.
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