This was Unionism in science, and needless to say it was wrong.

In politics it is equally wrong, and it has been repudiated everywhere except in Ireland.

Physical vision is limited in range; as the distance increases the vision declines in clearness, becomes subject to illusion, finally ceases.

Now you in London, through mere limitations of human faculty, cannot see us in Dublin.

You are trying to govern Ireland in the fashion in which, according to Wordsworth, all bad literature has been written, that is to say, without your eye on the object.