John Morley: “The Secretary of State can, to-morrow, if he likes, if there be a vacancy on the Viceroy's Council, recommend His…”

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.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.