If our ideal is a great Roman Empire, which shall be capable by means of fleets and armies of imposing its will upon the world, then it is satisfactory to think, for the reasons above given, that the ideal is an unattainable one.
Morley critiques the notion of imperial ambition by stating that the ideal of a vast empire is ultimately unattainable.
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Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
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