But it differs further from ordinary misrule in the vital matter of its object.

The coercion was not imposed that the people might live quietly, but that the people might die quietly.

And then we sit in an owlish innocence of our sin, and debate whether the Irish might conceivably succeed in saving Ireland.
We, as a matter of fact, have not even failed to save Ireland.

We have simply failed to destroy her.
It is not possible to reverse this judgment or to take away a single count from it.

Is there, then, anything whatever to be said for the English in the matter?
There is: though the English never by any chance say it.