Where are we in Science?
Where are we in Politics?
Where are we in Commerce?
Where are we in Sociology?
Where are we in Theology?
The writer received an answer, and a mild one:—]
Any adequate reply to your inquiry would be of the nature of a treatise, and that, I regret, I cannot undertake to write.
[Two letters of this year touch on Irish affairs, in which he was always interested, having withal a certain first-hand knowledge of the people and the country they lived in, from his visits there, both as a Fishery Commissioner and on other occasions. He writes warmly to the historian who treated of Ireland without prejudice or rancour.]
4 Marlborough Place, April 16, 1882.
My dear Lecky,