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They held that, to draw back on account of local and sporadic disturbances, however serious, anxious, and troublesome they might be, would have been a really grave humiliation.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “They held that, to draw back on account of local and sporadic disturbances, however serious, anxious, and troublesome…”
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Morley argues that retreating from reform due to disturbances would signify weakness in governance.
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