To this great country the state of Ireland after seven hundred years of our tutelage is in my opinion so long as it continues, an intolerable disgrace, and a danger so absolutely transcending all others, that I call it the only real danger of the noble empire of the Queen.
Morley condemns the state of Ireland as a disgrace and a significant danger to the British Empire.
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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.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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