Another period has opened and is opening still—a period possibly of yet greater moral dangers, certainly a great ordeal for those classes which are now becoming largely conscious of power, and never heretofore subject to its deteriorating influences.
Morley warns of the moral challenges that come with increased awareness of power among certain social classes.
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The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
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.
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