Over the two first, human efforts broadly speaking avail nothing; but we have it in our power to modify the two last (of course I include in the terms all that belongs to good and bad, beauty and ugliness).
Morley reflects on the limitations of human efforts in relation to beauty and ugliness.
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What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
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