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There the legal profession is unduly prominent and its 

 ranks are consequently overcrowded. Litigation is fostered 

 and the growth of technicalities stimulated, so that the 

 machinery of justice is clogged. Indians are naturally prone 

 to resort to the law courts on every possible occasion, the 

 luxury of a civil suit having a strange fascination which few 

 who can afford it succeed in withstanding permanently. The 

 introduction of new interests into the life of the people would 

 tend to check this tendency ; anything that will create a 

 wider outlook and broader views should be encouraged. The 

 backwardness of India is not a little due to this parasitic 

 growth and it is time that it were checked. The diversion to 

 industrial pursuits of part of the stream of graduates flowing 

 from the universities is a promising antidote and will perhaps 

 gradually educate the public to consider the man who devotes 

 his life to the promotion of the well-being and prosperity of 

 his fellows deserving of greater honour than he who keeps them 

 at variance and battens upon their failings and misfortunes. 



The Possible Industrial Future of India 



We are come now to the last stage in our discussion of 

 India's future industrial position and that is to illustrate by 

 concrete examples the possibility of working upon the lines 

 briefly indicated. It has been assumed that her industries 

 can be developed without leading to the hideous concentration 

 of human life and human activity in smoke-begrimed cities, 

 with unparalleled luxury for the few and squalour for the 

 many. This is based upon the idea that our ever-increasing 

 command of natural forces will enable us to operate with equal 

 advantage on a small as on a large scale ; that there is a 

 reaction against the deadening influence of production by 

 machinery, in favour of the greater variety offered by products 

 into the fabrication of which individual skill and fancy have 

 been allowed to enter ; that as there is therefore a field for 

 Indian labour which can be developed by a judicious com- 

 bination of the man with the machine, the former should be 

 trained to afford the fullest possible play to his God-given 

 faculties and that mechanical ingenuity should be directed to 

 providing him with the means to exercise those faculties to 

 the greatest possible advantage. 



