John Morley: “Few are the heroic moments in our parliamentary politics, but this was one.”

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.