On the whole when I think of the cabinet, I always go back to Jacob and Esau fighting in their mother’s womb; only here there have been many Jacobs and Esaus, by which I do not mean the sixteen members of the cabinet, but the many and very unhandy causes of division.
Morley uses a biblical metaphor to describe the conflicts within the cabinet.
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