John Morley: “We call men great for many reasons apart from service wrought or eminence of intellect or even from force and depth of…”

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.