These contrary conceptions of the relation of art to life have, throughout the Home Rule campaign, clashed in the English mind much to our disadvantage.

And there has been another agent of confusion, more widely human in character.

Every idea strongly held and, on the other side, strongly challenged, kindles spontaneously into passion, and every great cause has its poetry as well as its dialetics.

Men, forced to concentrate all their thought on one reform, come to see it edged with strange, mystical colours.

Let justice only triumph in this one regard, and our keel will grate on the shore of the Fortunate Islands, the Earthly Paradise.