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All we can say is that never before was the Government in all its branches and members found more ready than it is now, to do the very best to face the prospect.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “All we can say is that never before was the Government in all its branches and members found more ready than it is now…”
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Morley expresses confidence in the government's readiness to tackle the challenges ahead.
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If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
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.
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