There is no more idle superstition than the belief that criminal procedure does not, like other human arrangements, require change.

If incendiarism should become an element in the conduct of trade disputes, if dynamite is to be recognised as a legitimate arm in political conflicts, the criminal law of the United Kingdom will, we may be sure, need and receive several alterations and improvements.
By far the strongest portion of the Gladstonian argument is the stress that can be laid on the demoralisation of Parliament, produced partly, though not wholly, by the Irish vote.

This is a consideration which, as far as it goes, tells in favour of Home Rule.

It is, however, a consideration of which the Gladstonian apologist for the new constitution of 1893 [can] make no use.

His reasoning of necessity stands thus: The presence of 80 Irish members at Westminster has demoralised Parliament, therefore we must above all things retain 80 or possibly 103 Irish members at Westminster.