From the first, the principle of representative institutions began to be gradually introduced, and the time has come when, in the judgment of my Viceroy and Governor-General and others of my counsellors, that principle may be prudently extended.
Morley notes the gradual introduction of representative institutions in India and the potential for their expansion.
Share
More from John Morley
It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
Other voices in this conversation
