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There is no incentive to Mammon-worship so remarkable as that which it affords.
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John Morley
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Morley identifies the significant motivation for greed that war can create, highlighting its economic impact.
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They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
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