At Southport (Dec. 19) he first raised his standard, and proclaimed an Irish policy on Irish lines, that should embrace the promotion of higher education in a backward country, the reform of its religious institutions, the adjustment of the rights of the cultivator of the soil.
Morley describes Gladstone's vision for an Irish policy focused on education and reform.
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If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
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.
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