John Morley: “And the noble Soul is like a good mariner; for he, when he draws near the port, lowers his sails and enters it softly…”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

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.

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

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.