John Morley: “This is not only entirely credible, it is certain; for the only body that could carry out such a promise had not been…”

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.