In short, everywhere the stronger have made the laws and have crushed the weak; and if they have sometimes consulted the interests of a given society, they have always forgotten those of the human race.
Morley critiques the historical tendency of the powerful to create laws that benefit themselves at the expense of the weak.
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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
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