He ridiculed as it deserved the contention that the nation had not passed judgment on the question of disendowment, and he insisted that the government could not go further than three quarters of a million towards meeting the extravagant claims of the Lords.
This quote illustrates Morley's critique of the government's stance on disendowment and public sentiment.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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.
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