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And in each case, the method I have pointed out 

 is that, I believe, which an ordinary man of business 

 would be compelled to adopt to obtain his end. 



Now, the business transactions of a Government 

 differ in no way from the business transactions of an 

 individual, except perhaps in the greater magnitude 

 of their proportions; and consequently one great 

 secret of their success will always be, that they are 

 conducted on proper business principles. India 

 therefore, in my humble opinion, should adopt one 

 or other of these plans whichever appears to the 

 wisdom of her rulers most suitable to her present 

 circumstances and act upon it, as would any good 

 man of business, without delay. Thus, for instance, 

 if India has no interest in producing- cotton for 

 England, India is quite right to remain supine, and 

 to allow England to look for her supply of cotton 

 here, or there, or any where else she pleases, and 

 to adopt her own measures for obtaining it. For 

 that India should be turned into a field for growing 

 whatever England requires, altogether irrespective of 

 the interests of the people of the country, would be 

 a doctrine too monstrous to admit of argument for a 

 moment. But if India thinks that her climate and her 

 soil are suitable for the growth of cotton, and she de- 

 sires, for her own advantage, to secure a trade in this 

 article of fifteen or twenty millions sterling per annum, 

 but has not the means of doing it, then it is her busi- 

 ness and nobody else's business, to satisfy capitalists 

 on all those points regarding which cautious persons 



