Irish history has been said to resemble that of Spain for the last three centuries,—the elaboration of all those ideas of law and political economy most unsuited to the needs of the nation concerned.
Morley reflects on the historical parallels between Irish and Spanish governance, emphasizing the unsuitability of imposed laws.
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They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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