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point of view, are useful only in so far as they sup- 

 plement the deficiencies of the natives, for, birds of 

 passage as they are, if they bring one rupee INTO 

 the country, it is only that they may take two, or 

 more probably, four, OUT of it. India is certainly the 

 ONE rupee richer ; but still the TWO or FOUR poorer 

 than if the developers were true sons of the soil.* 



It is Education then, to which England must 

 look as the true means of effecting such a regenera- 

 tion in the people of India, as will make them a 

 willing instrument in the hands of an enlightened 

 and upright Government to work out their own pros- 

 perity ; and it is by the force of example, that lever 

 which Arnold held to be of first importance in the 

 philosophy of education, that the English developer, 

 will prove so able and so valuable a help to the Go- 

 vernment of India. Under the circumstances, it 

 cannot but be a source of deep and sincere regret to 

 those who wish India well, to see a department, of 

 all those of a Government the most powerful in its 

 influence for good, or for evil a department on the 

 efficient and judicious administration of which must 

 ultimately depend the solution of the most difficult 

 problems on which her Majesty's Government are 

 now employed, so sadly neglected. Without a head, 

 without the basis of any fixed principles, this De- 

 partment is altogether unrepresented in the Supreme 



* This is why I look on Mr. Schiller's scheme for reclaiming 

 the Sunderbuus with auch favour, the natives being its chief 

 supporters. 



