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think that the undirected and desultory efforts of 

 Government officials, or private individuals, will effect 

 a tithe of what might be accomplished iu this direction, 

 with better management,, in a quarter of the time. 



"We have seen what an able Minister in a very 

 short time has effected in Finance ; yet the work he 

 had to accomplish was light in comparison to what 

 is left for a Minister of Commerce. Measuring 

 the extent of the improvement in the condition 

 of the people of India that may be effected, by that 

 which has taken place within the last few years, 

 it needs not an over sanguine temperament to 

 believe that, with the rails and electric wires which 

 are now interlacing each other all over this vast 

 Continent, it is possible to crowd into the short 

 space of a generation, improvements in material 

 prosperity, that in older countries have been the work 

 of centuries. I say a generation, not that that period 

 would be necessary to effect in India a creation of 

 wealth unparalleled in the history of nations ; but 

 because the intellectual development of a people is 

 of slower growth, and must always be a work of 

 time. Many nations have grown rich in less than 

 one generation. But no nation on the face of the 

 globe, has made much intellectual progress in 

 less time. Nor will India. Yet, until India is 

 educated, be it in one, or be it in ten generations, 

 the full development of her great natural resources 

 cannot be looked for; and until the fulness of 



