202 INDIAN UNREST 



away by the belief when sporadic outbursts occur 

 in India that the whole country is in a state of 

 revolt. 



Distance tends to produce such impression. 



Dining quietly in London, you learn with equa- 

 nimity that there have been serious riots in Liver- 

 pool, but if you happen to be in Portugal at the 

 time and read the news in the Portuguese news- 

 papers you almost allow yourself to believe that 

 England is ablaze from Sutherland to Cornwall. 



It is important to realise this tendency when 

 reading newspaper accounts, possibly quite accur- 

 ate, of riots in India. 



What is essential is to check any such upheavals 

 firmly but so temperately, so judicially, as to 

 prevent anything approaching a sense of tyranny 

 and government by the sword, which would result 

 in a uniform mental attitude in the loyal and the 

 moderate, the disloyal and the extremists. 



You have both classes in India as elsewhere. 



So long as you do nothing to drive the former 

 into the arms of the latter, you need apprehend 

 no real danger to the solidarity of the Anglo-Indian 

 Empire. The real danger which confronts us lies 

 in a policy of alternate repression and concession, 

 a refusal to grant reforms ungrudgingly and in 

 time, and a failure to fully recognise the inevitable 

 effect of our own introduction into India of Western 

 education and Western ideals. 



Treat India as in the past you have treated 

 Ireland and you will have to face a second Ireland, 

 but an Ireland represented by a huge continent 

 and one of the largest populations in the world. 



Should that contingency arise, you will have to 



