The Irish Question is a broad and deeply interesting human problem which has baffled generation after generation of a great and virile race, who complacently attribute their incapacity to master it to Irish perversity, and pass on, leaving it unsolved by Anglo-Saxons, and therefore insoluble! FOOTNOTES: [1] My own experience confirms Mr.Lecky's view of the chief cause of this extraordinary feeling.

"It is probable," he writes, "that the true source of the savage hatred of England that animates great bodies of Irishmen on either side of the Atlantic has very little real connection with the penal laws, or the rebellion, or the Union.

It is far more due to the great clearances and the vast unaided emigrations that followed the famine."-- _Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland_, Vol.II., p, 177.
[2] _Spectator_, 6th September, 1902.
[3] The title to the greater part of Irish land is based on confiscation.

This is true of many other countries, but what was exceptional in the Irish confiscations was that the grantees for the most part did not settle on the lands themselves, drive away the dispossessed, or come to any rational working agreement with them..