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I Earth the source of all wealth, and the main and \ 

 legitimate source also from which the revenues of 



/ Tihe State should be derived :* their Sovereigns, 

 whether Hindoo, Mosalman, Marhatta, or English, 

 have ever recognized the correctness of this prin- 

 ciple ; and whether it be wise or unwise, sound in 

 principle or the reverse, that the land of a country 

 should be the property of individuals, surely it is too 

 much to expect that in the short space of a decade 

 for it is hardly more since the Indian Govern- 

 ment has attempted the introduction of European 

 principles of Government, and considerably less 

 since any efficient effort at the spread of education 

 has been made an ancient people forgetting those 

 ideas which governed the actions of their rulers for 

 centuries perhaps for thousands of years, should 

 patiently submit their neck to a yoke, necessitated 

 by the deliberate alienation of their own property, 

 by their Sovereign whose bounden duty it is to pro- 

 tect it. 



India is undoubtedly a rich country ; her resources 

 indeed seem almost inexhaustible ; and, assuming 

 peace and good Government, that she will be yet 

 both wealthy and prosperous, there is little room to 

 doubt. But, if there is little room to doubt this, 

 there is still less room to doubt that she will not 

 assume that position among* the nations of the 

 world to which her national capabilities give her 



* The Earth in Hindoo Shaster is called Kamdenu the Cow 

 that grants every wish. 



