He said before the 18th Amendment, provincial autonomy was treated as dissentious as it was thought that provincial autonomy would lead to disintegration of the country.
He challenges dissentious literary critics and holds to an "aesthetic value of literature" that can be shared among those who "still read for the love of reading" (518).
He discovers that desperation during hard times turns them into "dissentious rogues" (1.1.175) and that wars turn them into cowards, "souls of geese that bear the shapes of men" (1.4.45-46).