In Henry II.'s time this
had been going on for at least seven hundred years, and during the
seven hundred that have followed much the same thing would have
been going on, if the English Government had not occasionally
interfered."
The English whom Henry II. left behind him soon became "as wild and
barbarous as the Irishmen themselves."
Oxford, the home of so many other lost causes, apparently aspires to be
also the home of the lost cause of mendacity. The forcible-feeble malice
of Mr Fletcher calls for no serious discussion; submit it to any
continental scholar, to any honest British scholar, and he will ask
contemptuously, though perhaps with a little stab of pain, how the name
of Oxford comes to be associated with such wicked absurdities. Every
other reference to Ireland is marked by the same scientific composure
and balanced judgment. And this document, inspired by race hatred, and
apparently designed to propagate race hatred, is offered to the youth of
these countries as an aid towards the consolidation of the Empire.
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