John Morley: “The true question against Ruskin’s and Carlyle’s school was how you…”

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The true question against Ruskin’s and Carlyle’s school was how you are to get the rule of the best.

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John Morley

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Morley questions how to achieve the governance of the best individuals in society.

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We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

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

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.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

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John Morley: “The true question against Ruskin’s and Carlyle’s school was how you are to get the rule of the best.”