John Morley: “With Turgot they were the main facts to be considered, and the main forces to be counteracted.”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

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.