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this variety can be recorded, studied and reduced 

 to order. A scheme of education the scope of 

 which is limited to the special part of the earth in 

 the ruling of which the student expects to take part 

 would miss the point entirely. What is needed is 

 the breadth of view which comes from a wide 

 survey of human custom and belief, though this 

 survey may well be supplemented by the more 

 intensive study of some one part of the world. 

 Whether the part of the world so studied is or is 

 not that in which the student expects to live is a 

 matter of no great importance. There are reasons 

 why it would be more profitable to study intensively 

 a region different from that in which the student 

 expects to work. 



Especially futile would be a system in which the 

 instruction of the future rulers of any part of the 

 world is undertaken by those who have already 

 assisted in its government. Such a course of action 

 would only perpetuate the bodies of false knowledge 

 which have so frequently come into being (see 

 p. 307), especially in the more recent acquisitions 

 of the Empire. We need men who will go to 

 the work of government with minds committed 

 to no special point of view, but with an interest in 

 the manifold problems which are being formulated 

 by students of human society. Above all is it 

 necessary that they shall realise how little we 

 know and how much there is to learn. 



It may, it almost certainly will, be objected that 



