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hard to analyse but strong and inspiring, that the 

 darkest days are over. Heavy thunder-clouds 

 may gather again as they have done in the past, 

 but they will gather only to be dispersed as the 

 true end of British rule develops and becomes 

 more clearly understood. Each year of settled 

 government that passes, each widening of inter- 

 communication between India and the rest of the 

 world, each successful solution of the problem 

 of Indian Finance, bringing with it increasing 

 prosperity, each exercise of the new responsibilities 

 placed upon Indians themselves in the adminis- 

 tration of their own country must make for orderly 

 evolution, contentment, and progress. The com- 

 mon sense of the peoples of India on the one hand, 

 and the sober political instincts of those in author- 

 ity on the other, will work in the same direction. 

 Only let there be more mutual trust, more mutual 

 confidence, more mutual good-will, for these are 

 the bonds with which the fabric of every great 

 empire is strengthened ; and their need is greatest 

 to-day, as their power is strongest to-day, in this 

 great Indian Empire." 



Although starting for Home, I shall post this 

 to you, as I intend to go round by sea to London 

 and thence to Germany for a cure. 



