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also recollections equally dear of my own fellow- 

 countrymen men who have laboured side by side 

 with me and those also whom I have met on my 

 official tours, men who go on working cheerfully 

 year in, year out, under condition of climate and 

 environment which try the strongest constitutions 

 and the most placid nerves. 



" As an Englishman I am proud of the achieve- 

 ment that has been wrought in India, under 

 British rule, by the co-operation of English and 

 Indians in the common work of administration. 

 The nineteenth century in India, in spite of all 

 miscarriages and mistakes, is one of the noblest 

 pages in the history of the modern world. The lives 

 of great men like Elphinstone, Bentinck, and the 

 Lawrences, of men like Ram Mohan Roy, Syed 

 Ahmad Khan, and Ranade, to mention only a 

 few names out of a thousand, are still fresh and 

 powerful among us and their influence has made 

 the modern India we know to-day. To them and 

 men like them, we owe the fact that social order 

 reigns over this vast continent, and also that in 

 India during the past three generations one of the 

 most marked intellectual revolutions in the history 

 of mankind has taken place. 



" My earliest and happiest impressions of this 

 country were received in this beautiful city of 

 Bombay surely one of the most beautiful for 

 situation on the face of the whole earth. I found 

 here a kindliness, a liberality, a friendly equality 

 between man and man of all races which has been 

 a joy to me to witness. Indeed, this equality of a 

 common citizenship, which you seem to have 

 achieved in such abundant measure in Bombay, I 

 regard as one of the most significant factors of the 

 present Indian situation, and one of the happiest 

 omens for British rule in India in the future. 



" It has been our good-fortune to share together, 



