This influence, as we have seen, left on Ireland a fearful mark which will never be effaced.
English rule in Ireland had been bad before; but in the broadening light of the revolutionary century I doubt whether it could have continued as bad, if we had not taken a side that forced us to flatter barbarian tyranny in Europe.

We should hardly have seen such a nightmare as the Anglicising of Ireland if we had not already seen the Germanising of England.

But even in England it was not without its effects; and one of its effects was to rouse a man who is, perhaps, the best English witness to the effect on the England of that time of the Alliance with Germany.
With that man I shall deal in the chapter that follows.
V--_The Lost England_ Telling the truth about Ireland is not very pleasant to a patriotic Englishman; but it is very patriotic.

It is the truth and nothing but the truth which I have but touched on in the last chapter.

Several times, and especially at the beginning of this war, we narrowly escaped ruin because we neglected that truth, and would insist on treating our crimes of the '98 and after as very distant; while in Irish feeling, and in fact, they are very near.