It seems to us as reasonable to prepare children for their moral life by excluding religion as to prepare them for their physical life by removing the most important lobe of their brains.
The only other prognostication that appears to emerge is the probable predominance in a Home Rule Ireland of the present Ulster Unionist party.

That group is likely, for many reasons, to retain its solidarity after ours has been dissipated.

Should that prove to be the case, self-government will put the balance of power on almost all great conflicts of opinion into the hands of Sir Edward Carson and his successors.

The "minority," adroitly handled, will exploit the majority almost as effectively after Home Rule as before it.

Captain Craig will dictate terms to us not from the last ditch, but from a far more agreeable and powerful position, the Treasury Bench.