John Morley: “To speak of such a thing seems dishonouring to God; but it is not religion as it comes from Him, it is religion with the…”

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

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

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.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.