Men talked of humiliation abroad, ruin at home, agricultural interests doomed, trade at a standstill—calamities all obviously due to a government without spirit, and a majority with no independence.
Morley critiques the dire predictions made about the state of the nation and its government.
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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
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