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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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shops, a combination more compatible than flippant
cynics commonly suppose. Hence it is that the
moral sense of the British nation is outraged, and
its indignation violently roused by the spectacle of
a hypocritical invasion of a neighbour’s territory.
This feeling is totally different from international
jealousy. Diplomacy, having no conscience, is
incapable of interpreting public opinion based on
conscience. To the cool diplomatic reasoners who
have frozen up their own moral sympathies, our
contradictory proceedings, when we hold meetings,
spout red-hot speeches, pass strong resolutions, and
after all this, begin to investigate the subject, and
then act rationally, is utterly paradoxical and
inscrutable. The key to it all is that we are an
intensely sentimental people, our feelings are aroused
more readily than our intellect is awakened; hence
we first protest, then think, and finally act; and
if it happens that we were misinformed during the
protesting stage, our action and our protests may
directly contradict each other, to the utter
discomfiture of the cunning statesmen who have expended
large amounts of secret service money for the
purpose of fooling us, and who, depending on our first
outbreaks of sentimental extravagance, imagine
that they have succeeded.

But to return to the particular case that

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