John Morley: “True friendships are hard to find among men who busy themselves about politics and office.”

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

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.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.