All that has radically changed.

The change has been slow and gradual, but it has been continuous and sure.

Such a change as that can never be reversed.

You might as well talk of the world going back to the days before electricity or petrol as hope to bring back the prejudices and the ignorance of the masses of the people in this country about Ireland, as they existed in the past." His confidence was strong and it communicated itself to Ireland.

But whatever could be said to shake confidence was said by Mr.O'Brien and Mr.Healy, who denounced the Bill as worthless when linked to the plan of even temporary partition, and declared that, whatever the Government might say at present, we had not yet reached the end of their concessions.