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much decried a few pages back. Of all systems 

 this latter is the most abominable the most mis- 

 chievous ; because, being propped up by what are 

 called ' sound principles,' it often decieves or 

 mystifies the public, as a rule not the thinking 

 portion of the people, into the belief, that a policy 

 apparently so well considered and surely based, 

 will, in the end, be conducive to the best interests 

 of the country, whereas, all the while, it simply 

 indicates a total absence of originality of ideas, a 

 grievous want of common sense, and is the 

 greatest possible impediment to a nation's progress. 

 On the contrary, I advocate what appears to me 

 to be the most practical, and only practicable, 

 method of obtaining the end all interested in India 

 must have in view, the development of her great 

 natural resources, in a manner, at once, the most 

 expeditious, and most beneficial to the country. 



For, to take an illustration from common life, let 

 us suppose our old acquaintance Jones, to come into 

 the possession of an estate as largo as Yorkshire. 

 His first business would naturally be to have his 

 property surveyed. His next probably to ascertain its 

 value i. e. its capabilities for production, and natural 

 sources of wealth. Well, let us further suppose 

 him to discover that his property not only contains 

 the fine arable land in possession of the tenantry 

 already established on the estate ; but large tracts 

 of virgin soil suitable for growing tea, coft'ee, cotton, 



