Chapter IV exhibits the Home Rule idea as a fundamental law of nature,
human nature, and government.
Chapters V and VI contain a very brief account of the more obvious
economic crimes and blunders of Unionism.
Chapter VII discusses the queer ideas of "Ulster," and the queer
reasons for the survival of these ideas.
Chapter VIII demonstrates that, as a mere matter of political technique,
Home Rule must be conceded if any real government is ever to exist
again, whether in Great Britain, in Ireland, or in the Empire.
Chapter IX dips into the future, and indicates that a Home Rule Ireland
will have so much interesting work to do as to have no time for civil
war or religious oppression.
Chapter X shows that everybody who values "loyalty" must of necessity be
a Home Ruler.
The only moral commended to the reader is that expressed by Browning in
a firm and inevitable line, which has been disastrously forgotten in so
many passages of English history:--
"It's fitter being sane than mad."
I have tried also to convey to him, with what success others must judge,
something of the "pride and passion" of Irish nationality.
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