Whether your apprehensions are well founded or not, it is the business of those who call themselves statesmen to take those apprehensions into account, and to do the best we can in setting up a working system to allay and meet such apprehensions.
Morley emphasizes the responsibility of statesmen to consider community concerns in governance.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
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