John Morley: “The best will be a severe struggle and the issue is likely to be unfavourable.”

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.