John Morley: “The substitution, instead of this abusive system, of promotion by selection, was one of the first steps in army reform.”

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.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

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