John Morley: “The sensible reader would resist any attempt to drag him into the Serbonian bog of Egyptian finance.”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.