John Morley: “What answer would the military authorities make to this question, those of them especially who have brains rather than…”

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

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.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.