THE MECHANICS OF HOME RULE The inevitableness of Home Rule resides in the fact that it is, as one might say, a biped among ideas.

It marches to triumph on two feet, an Irish and an Imperial foot.

If there were in Ireland no demand whatever for self-government it would, nevertheless, be necessary in the interests of the Empire to force it on her.

The human, or as some people may prefer to call it, the sociological case for Home Rule, and the historical case for it have already been outlined.

We now turn to consideration, of another order, derived from Political Mechanics, or rather bearing on the mere mechanism of politics.