After all, there is no English-speaking community in any part of the wide globe, where our tragic mismanagement of the land of Ireland, and of those dwelling on it and sustained by it, has not left its unlucky stamp.
Morley reflects on the global impact of England's mismanagement of Ireland.
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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.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
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