It was vital that we should stamp out the impression that the Government of India could be defied with impunity, not in matters of opinion, mark you, but in matters affecting peace, order, life, and property--that the Government in those elementary conditions of social existence could be defied with impunity.
Morley emphasizes the importance of demonstrating the government's authority in maintaining social order in India.
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I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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