Turning for a moment to the larger outlook, I am extremely indisposed to any harking back in the matter of home rule; we are now, I think, freed from the enormous danger of seeing P. master in Ireland; division and its consequences in diminishing force, are the worst we have to fear.
Morley discusses his reluctance to revert to previous debates on home rule, feeling a sense of progress.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
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