John Morley: “How can we decide without knowing or trying to know, both if we can, but at any rate the second?”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.