If a plurality of nine to two is not sufficient to determine policy and conduct business in a modern nation, then there is no other choice except anarchy, or rather an insane atomism.

Not merely every party, but every household and, in last resort, every individual will end as a Provisional Government.

Separatism of this type is a very ecstasy of nonsense, and none of my readers will think so cheaply of his own intelligence as to stay to discuss it.

It is in other terms that we must handle the problem of "Ulster." The existence in certain nooks and corners of Ireland of a democratic vote hostile to Home Rule is, let us confess, a conundrum.

But it is a conundrum of psychology rather than of politics.