John Morley: “I think that the time has now come when the Secretary of State may safely, wisely, and justly recommend at any rate one…”

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.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

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.