Some sages, while pretending infinite friendship to home rule, insisted that the parliament at Westminster should retain a direct and active veto upon legislation at Dublin, and that Irish members should remain as they were in London.
Morley critiques the notion that Westminster should maintain control over Irish legislation while professing support for home rule.
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But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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