John Morley: “Do not let us consider the clouds to be darker than they really are.”

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

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.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.