Address of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin [at the first Annual Meeting of the Social Inquiry Society of Ireland]

Abstract

His Grace expressed his great satisfaction at the establishment of such a society as that, which seemed to him calculated to meet in some, perhaps in a very great measure, one very great evil, which was essentially inseparable from a free government; he meant an evil resulting from party-contests. Every body must have observed ? although this was a well-governed country, perhaps the best in the world ? yet that in every branch of manufacture they succeeded better than in the manufacture of laws.