Instead of accepting, as was the first duty, the result of the plebiscite, people have resorted to sophism of incomparable weakness: Article 88 of the Treaty of Versailles says only that the inhabitants of Upper Silesia shall be called to designate by means of a plebiscite if they desire to be united to Germany or to Poland.

Let us not be misled by any sophisms about conciliation and compromise.

The ordinary sophism by which misrule is defended is, when truly stilted, this: The people must continue in slavery, because slavery has generated in them all the vices of slaves; because they are ignorant, they must remain under a power which has made and which keeps them ignorant; because they have been made ferocious by misgovernment, they must be misgoverned forever.

Will you find excuses in these sophisms for inflicting a mortal wound on me?

Nevertheless, the ship-owners and the Protectionists and those who raised the alarm-cry about England's naval defences were unable to maintain their sophisms in the face of growing education and of the impulse given by the adoption of free trade.

The tone of intellectual disparagement and moral rebuke which certain critics,deceived by the shallowest sophisms with which an unscrupulous writer could work on their prepossessions and insult their understandingshave adopted towards Mr. Newman made exposure necessary.