John Morley: “All epochs are fastened together by a sequence of causes and effects, linking the condition of the world to all the…”

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.