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for themselves.* Hence, we have the term Pa- 

 ternal Government, as signifying-, I assume, a 

 Government suitable to a country the people of 

 which are in a state of infancy -, and unfitted for the 

 management of their own affairs, or self-government. 

 As long then, as a country has a Government, in no 

 case can it be fairly said that the duty of developing 

 the natural resources of that country, devolves on the 

 people of another country. Nor, would it be wise 

 in any Government to dispute this position, for that 

 Government that would shift this responsibility from 

 its own shoulders, and impose it on those of irre- 

 sponsible agents, would retain no higher place in 

 the affections of her children, than that of a step- 

 mother, and would hardly have the same just right 

 to lay claim to advantages derivable from their in- 

 creased ability to bear taxation on attaining the age 

 of manhood. 



This is a question certainty involving very high 

 and important considerations a question which 

 perhaps it would be better to leave in the hands 

 of men more accustomed to deal with those pro- 

 blems of political philosophy which Governments 

 are daily called on to solve, and one which I 

 should not have touched upon, were it not for 

 a confident conviction that the interests of both 

 this country and England will be better served, if 

 questions regarding India, involving interests of 



* These remarks apply to experimental or model cultivation 

 only. January, 1867. 



