John Morley: “The language of the movers was worthy of the British parliament at its best, worthy of the station of those who (M188)…”

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

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.