His gift of political imagination, his wider experience, and his personal share in some chapters of the modern history of Europe and its changes, planted him on a height whence he commanded a view of possibilities (M90) and necessities, of hopes and of risks, that were unseen by politicians of the beaten track.
Morley praises the political imagination and experience of a leader in understanding European dynamics.
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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?
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.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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