John Morley: “It is supremely difficult to work in a statutory scheme with limits, reservations, and restrictions lurking round every…”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.