John Morley

John Morley's Books(4)

Voltaire

Literature

5.0

Voltaire by John Morley

On Compromise

Literature

5.0

In this influential 1874 essay, Morley asks the question, "How far, and in what way, ought respect either for immediate practical convenience, or for current prejudices, to weigh against respect for truth?" At once philosophical and practical, Morley's essay remains relevant in today's hyper-partisan political climate.

Indian speeches (1907-1909)

Literature

5.0

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Sir Rowland Hill

Literature

5.0

In Gladstone's “'musings for the good of man,'” writes John Morley in his Life of the dead statesman (ii. 56, 57), the “Liberation of Intercourse, to borrow his own larger name for Free Trade, figured in his mind's eye as one of the promoting conditions of abundant employment.... He recalled the days when our predecessors thought it must be for man's good to have 'most of the avenues by which the mind and also the hand of man conveyed and exchanged their respective products' blocked or narrowed by regulation and taxation.