John Morley: “To insist on ascribing complex results to single causes is the well-known vice of narrow and untrained minds.”

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.

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

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

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