John Morley: “I think the clearness, power, and promptitude of your intellect are in one respect a difficulty and a danger to you.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.