John Morley: “All was beautiful, simple, noble, touching to the very last degree.”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.