John Morley: “I can speak from experience, for I know what it has been to have had cast upon my shoulders the most important and most…”

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

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

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.