John Morley: “I am an out-and-out inequalitarian,” a confession which Ruskin treated with intense delight, clapping his hands…”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.