XI.
UTOPIAN IDEAS.
If I were His Majesty's Minister!
—Well, what would you do?
—I should begin by—by—upon my word, by being very much embarrassed. For I should be Minister only because I had the majority, and I should have that only because I had made it, and I could only have made it, honestly at least, by governing according to its ideas. So if I undertake to carry out my ideas and to run counter to its ideas, I shall not have the majority, and if I do not, I cannot be His Majesty's Minister.
—Just imagine that you are so, and that consequently the majority is not opposed to you, what would you do?
—I would look to see on which side justice is.
—And then?
—I would seek to find where utility was.