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" It is to education that we must look to dispel 

 many of the misapprehensions which go so far as 

 to create discontent in this country. Education 

 dispelled the ' money drain theory/ and we 

 must use it to dispel the idea that British rule has 

 reduced India to poverty and its people to starva- 

 tion. The exact opposite is the case. 



" India is at the present time very prosperous 

 and its people have probably never before been so 

 well off. The volume of our exports and imports 

 proves it. 



" We have all of us, English and Indian alike, 

 passed through very serious and anxious times. 



" The lesson that I have learnt is the supreme 

 importance of trust and confidence in the Indian 

 people, and the assurance that if that trust is firm 

 and that confidence upheld there will inevitably 

 follow a rich harvest of loyalty and affection. 



" And I say with conviction, that among those 

 most responsive to such trust I place the educated 

 Indian community. 



" Let the appeal be made to trust and confidence 

 trust and confidence answering to trust and 

 confidence and there is nothing that educated 

 Indians will not do, there is no sacrifice they will 

 not make for the maintenance of British rule. 



' I believe the time has come when an appeal 

 will have to be made for that trust and confidence 

 to the educated classes. It is incumbent on us tp 

 ask them with frankness to share our responsibilities 

 in a far greater measure than ever before. They 

 are the true interpreters of the ideals of our rule, 

 and as the elementary education of the masses 

 goes forward the need of loyal and sympathetic 

 interpretation of our aims and objects will be far 

 more important in the future than it has been in 

 the past. 



" I leave India to-morrow with the conviction, 



