John Morley: “In those countries I can hardly imagine any change that would not be for the better.”

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

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.