But the pleas and justifications for reaction are rarely its causes.

If Englishmen attempt to bring about the legal destruction of the new constitution, their action will be produced by a sense of the false position assigned to England.

No device of statesmanship can stand which is condemned by the nature of things.

The predominance of England in the affairs of the United Kingdom is secured by sanctions which in the long run can neither be defied nor set aside; the constitution which does not recognise this predominance is doomed to ruin.

That its overthrow would be just no one dare predict; the future is as uncertain as it is dark.