John Morley: “The course that you purpose is indeed a self-denying, an unworldly, and a noble one.”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

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.