John Morley: “My warning may be wasted, but anybody who has a chance ought to try to…”

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My warning may be wasted, but anybody who has a chance ought to try to appeal to the better, the riper, mind of educated India.

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John Morley

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Morley encourages efforts to engage with the educated minds of India.

More from John Morley

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

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John Morley: “My warning may be wasted, but anybody who has a chance ought to try to appeal to the better, the riper, mind of educated…”