I am far from denying that the past offers much justification for the belief that nothing can be gained by Ireland from England except through violent agitation.

Until recently, I admit, Ireland's opportunity had to wait for England's difficulty.

But, as practised in the present day, I believe this doctrine to be mischievous and false.

For one thing, there is a new England to deal with.

The England which, certainly not in deference to violent agitation, established the Congested Districts Board, gave Local Government to Ireland, and accepted the recommendations of the Recess Committee for far-reaching administrative changes, as well as those of the Land Conference which involved great financial concessions, is not the England of fifty years ago, still less the England of the eighteenth century.