John Morley: “It has produced already anticipations of love and good will, which are the first fruits of what is to come.”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

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

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.