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.
Morley warns against limiting Ireland's self-governance, suggesting it would hinder effective management of Irish affairs.
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No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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