Ipse Dixit

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Excerpt from Ipse Dixit: Or the Gladstonian Settlement of IrelandIt is no wonder that parties are split, that the country is aroused, that there is a general feeling of apprehension. Ireland has not prospered in the hands of Mr. Gladstone. In spite of his Church policy, in spite of his Agrarian Laws, in Spite of all his heroic legislation, Ireland is in much the same state now as it was in three hundred years ago, when Lord Spencer's ancestor wrote his View of the State of Ireland, in the form of a dialogue between Irenaeus and Eudoxus. 'if that country of Ireland, whence you lately came, be of so goodly and commodious a soil as you report', says Eudoxus, 'i wonder that no course is taken for the turning thereof to good uses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.