From the works of such teachers as Mill, Cobbett, Bagehot, and Morley, the mind of India has for the first time derived the principles of free government.

Fortunately for India, the value of Burke has been eloquently defined by Lord Morley, who has himself contributed more to the future constitutional freedom of India than any other Secretary of State.

Writing of Burke's three speeches on the American War, Lord Morley declares: "It is no exaggeration to say that they compose the most perfect manual in our literature, or in any literature, for one who approaches the study of public affairs, whether for knowledge or for practice.

Or if it be said that students require style rather than politics, let us recall what Lord Morley has written of Burke's style: "A magnificence and elevation of expression place him among the highest masters of literature, in one of its highest and most commanding senses.

For such strengthening and austerity, on Lord Morley's showing, no teacher could be more serviceable than Burke: "The reader is speedily conscious," he writes, "of the precedence in Burke of the facts of morality and conduct, of the many interwoven affinities of human affection and historical relation, over the unreal necessities of mere abstract logic....

As examples of the justice of his eulogy let me quote a few sentences from those very speeches which Lord Morley thus extolsthe speeches on the American War of Independence.

" It was the second of these noble passages that I once heard declaimed on the sea-beach at Madras to an Indian crowd by an Indian speaker, who, following the precepts of Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, had made Burke's speeches his study by day and night.

Such subjects are all very well, but where in them do we find the magnificence and elevation of expression, the sacred gift of inspiring men to make their lives at once rich and austere, and the other high qualities that Lord Morley found in "the most perfect manual in any literature"?

Writers on liberty, such as Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Burke, Mill, and Lord Morley would be prohibited.

SEE Cowan, Harold E. MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER. Adventure in Hoboken.

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