John Morley: “The people had decided that the empire should not be destroyed.”

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

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

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.