John Morley: “Democracy cannot govern remote dependencies." I do not know; it is a hard question.”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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.