In thinking about him we have constantly to remember, as Sir George Lewis said, that government is a very rough affair at best, a huge rough machine, not the delicate springs, wheels, and balances of a chronometer, and those concerned in working it have to be satisfied with what is far below the best.
Morley reflects on the rough nature of government, emphasizing the challenges faced by those in power.
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But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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