Might I go so far as to say at the first meeting that in the case supposed, I should only accept the trust if assured of the adequate, that is of the general, support of the party to a plan of duly guarded home rule?
Morley indicates that he would only accept a political trust if assured of adequate support for a home rule plan.
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We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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