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Excerpt from A Review of the Present State of the Shakespearian Controversy
"I can have no right ," says Mr. Collier in his reply to Mr. Hamilton's "Inquiry," "to complain that if there be fair and reasonable ground for believing that a fraud and imposture has been attempted or committed, one department, or even all the departments of our great national institution, should step forward to guard the public against the delusion. I look upon it, in fact, as part of their duty; but they are bound to discharge that duty with as much expedition as is compatible with a proper sifting of the case; and they are bound, moreover, not only to limit themselves in the execution of their task to what necessity may require, but to proceed with due regard to the character and dignity of their own position. A dispassionate sobriety ought to be observed, if merely for the sake of the effect to be produced, and the whole inquiry ought to be conducted with the utmost temper and moderation."
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