John Morley: “Many other writers have tried to put this idea into real shape, and when we come to ask from them for further and better…”

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.