The Revolution brought about in Ireland just the reverse of what it effected in England.

Here it delivered the body of the nation from the attempted supremacy of a small sect.

There it made a small sect supreme over the body of the nation.

"It was, to say the truth," Burke wrote, "not a revolution but a conquest," and the policy of conquest was treated as the just and normal system of government.

The last conquest of England was in the eleventh century.