John Morley: “I do not see that I am wanted or should be of use in the House of Lords, and there would be more discrepancy between…”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.