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The Open Secret of Ireland

CHAPTER VIII
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How is this to be done?
In one way and in one way only, by leaving local business to local bodies.

But that is Home Rule, or, as the learned, envisaging the idea from another point of view, sometimes prefer to call it, Devolution.

Through the principle of autonomy, incompletely applied, the British Possessions have so far evolved.

Through the principle of autonomy, completely applied, and in no other wise, can they evolve into an ordered system worthy of the Imperial name.

This is at first blush a singular development.


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