On the record
Such things were trifling with parliament, trifling with a vital constitutional question, and trifling with the social order which the government professed to be so anxious to restore.
Said by
John Morley
Source
gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “Such things were trifling with parliament, trifling with a vital constitutional question, and trifling with the social…”
Editor's note · Context
Morley critiques the government's handling of parliamentary procedures, emphasizing the seriousness of constitutional matters.
Share
More from John Morley
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
Other voices in this conversation
