John Morley: “They are as we make them, and they make society.”

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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.