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atmosphere, or whose movements are warped by the cramping of some unnatural constraint.
Let us just ask ourselves, looking at the thing as people simply desirous of finding the truth, how men who saw and thought straight would proceed, how an American, for instance,--whose seeing and thinking has, I have said, if not in all matters, yet commonly in political and social concerns, this quality of straightness,--how an American would proceed in the three confusions which I have given as instances of the many confusions now embarrassing us: the confusion of our foreign affairs, the confusion of the House of Commons, the confusion of Ireland.
And then, when we have discovered the kind of proceeding natural in these cases, let us ask ourselves, with the same sincerity, what is the cause of that warp of mind hindering most of us from seeing straight in them, and also where is our remedy.
The Angra Pequeña business has lately called forth from all sides many and harsh animadversions upon Lord Granville, who is charged with the direction of our foreign affairs.
I shall not swell the chorus of complainers.
Nothing has happened but what was to be expected.
Long ago I remarked that it is not Lord Granville himself who determines our
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