I do not agree that any organised society has ever subsisted upon either of those principles, or that brutality is always present as a fundamental postulate in the relations between rulers and ruled.
Morley challenges the notion that brutality is a fundamental aspect of governance in society.
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An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
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.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
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