Yet his eminently sane and far-seeing policy was regarded in many quarters as a sacrifice of Unionist interests in Ireland.

Its real effect was to endow Unionism with a positive as well as a negative policy.

But all reformers know that the further ahead they look, the longer they have to wait for their justification.

Meanwhile, we may leave out of consideration the division of honour or of blame for what has been done.

The only matter of historic interest is to arrive at a correct measure of the progress made.
The new movement had thus completed the first and second stages of its mission.