Let us agree, for argument's sake, that the expansion of England is the most important of the threads that it is the historian's business to disengage from the rest of the great strand of our history in the eighteenth century.
Morley emphasizes the significance of England's expansion in the context of 18th-century history.
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How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
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