John Morley: “Yet the questions of national education, answer them as we will, touch the moral life and death of nations.”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.