If anybody supposes that England, for instance, would send a fleet to Canada to collect ship-money in the name of the Federal Council, it would be just as easy to imagine her sending a fleet in her own name.
Morley critiques the absurdity of expecting England to enforce federal decisions through military means.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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.
What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
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