First, then, as to the temper of mind in which an autonomous Ireland will face the world.

The one clear certainty is that it will not be rhetorical or Utopian.

Of all the libels with which we are pelted the most injurious to our repute is a kindly libel, that which represents us as a nation of orators.

To the primitive Tory the Nationalist "agitator" appears in the guise of a stormy and intractable fiend, with futility in his soul, and a College Green peroration on his lips.

The sources of this superstition are easily traced.