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INTRODUCTION
All that British statesmanship can do is to take the advice of Irishmen of business and administrative experience, who stand aloof from politics, parties, and churches, men of high character and of tried patriotism. Irishmen whom we never hear of in the parliamentary world have shown conspicuous genius in practical organisation. They are the men to whom we should listen. They know their country and their fellow citizens as no Briton can. It is one of these men whose words I ask Englishmen to mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Frederic Harrison.
