John Morley: “I find in it a chance of getting the Indian angle of vision, and I feel sometimes as if I were actually in the streets…”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

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.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.