John Morley: “The people of India do not like us, but they would scarcely know where to turn if we left them.”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.