I have in mind rather that profound moral settlement, that generous reconciliation which we have seen in South Africa, and desire to see in Ireland.

What of it?
Did reason and the candid vision of things, as they are, control public affairs, there could be little doubt as to the issue in this choice between friendship and hatred, between the formula of freedom and that of domination.

But, unhappily, we have no assurance that Philip sober rather than Philip drunk will sign the warrant.

There exists in England, in respect of all things Irish, a monstrous residuum of prejudice.

It lies ambushed in the blood even when it has been dismissed from the mind, and constitutes the real peril of the situation.