Is there any rational man who holds that, if you can lay down political principles and maxims of government that apply equally to Scotland or to England, or to Ireland, or to France, or to Spain, therefore they must be just as true for the Punjab and the United Provinces and Bengal?
Morley questions the application of political principles across diverse regions, emphasizing the uniqueness of India.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
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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