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Home Rule Problems
Excerpt from Home Rule Problems
A consideration which in?uenced us in our meetings and in our desire to publish this Volume has been the belief that it is the duty Of all anxious for a Home Rule policy to make up' minds beforehand on the important details Of the measure. The last two Bills were killed largely by the attacks made on details we must not be caught napping once more. Some would have us wait till the Government have produced their Bill, but that might be too late. On such matters the views Of the country always prevail in the long it is better that such views should be evoked beforehand, not afterwards, especially, in regard to acute points of controversy. Moreover, the impetus to carry through Home Rule will be far greater if an interest in its details has been previously aroused by widespread consideration and discussion..
A consideration which in?uenced us in our meetings and in our desire to publish this Volume has been the belief that it is the duty Of all anxious for a Home Rule policy to make up' minds beforehand on the important details Of the measure. The last two Bills were killed largely by the attacks made on details we must not be caught napping once more. Some would have us wait till the Government have produced their Bill, but that might be too late. On such matters the views Of the country always prevail in the long it is better that such views should be evoked beforehand, not afterwards, especially, in regard to acute points of controversy. Moreover, the impetus to carry through Home Rule will be far greater if an interest in its details has been previously aroused by widespread consideration and discussion..
221 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
About the author
Basil Williams
50 books2 followersThe son of a barrister, Basil Williams was educated at Marlborough College and at New College, Oxford, where he read classics. After military service and a number of administrative positions in South Africa, he served as Kingsford Professor of History at McGill University in 1921, and then professor of History at Edinburgh University from 1925 to 1937 when he retired. In 1935 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy.
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