In the flame of either dictum the present "government" of Ireland shrivels to ashes, and affairs are ripe for the application of both.

Here, as in the Colonies, the people must enter into its heritage.
The days are for ever dead in which a nation could be ruled in daily disregard of its history, its ideals, its definite programme.
On the minutiae of administration I do not mean to touch.

When the whole spirit, atmosphere, and ethos are anti-moral it is idle to chronicle any chance rectitude of detail.

If a man is a murderer it is not much to his credit to observe that he has triumphed over the primitive temptation to eat peas with his knife.

If a government is based on contempt for public opinion, as its fundamental principle, no useful purpose is served by a record of the occasions on which a policeman has been known to pass a citizen in the street without beating him.