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of celebrated memory; nor yet a desire to support 

 in the abstract, the principle of a Government 

 supply of capital. Nothing of the kind. I simply 

 assert that the natives of this country are not in 

 a condition to work out their own prosperity, 

 nor to initiate or carry out such experimental 

 operations, as are necessary to induce others to 

 undertake the task for them, and that if the 

 Government of the country, does not do the work, 

 no body else will. 



1 In India' T have observed elsewhere 'we have as 

 yet no communes, no town councils, no mayors 

 or corporations, no religious and charitable socie- 

 ties, &c. those noble institutions, which, while 

 rendering Englishmen a self-governing people, 

 make the office of Home Secretary compara- 

 tively a sinecure. A civil commissioner there, is 

 a viceroy the Government, both King and Father. 

 Is a bridge, jail, church, or scho >1 to 1)3 built, a 

 road, railway, or canal to be made, a country to be 

 drained, cleared, or watered, Government must do 

 the work it alone must bear the cost. No aid 

 from interested parties is solicited, or expected, No 

 advice which local experience might elsewhere render 

 valuable, is looked for, or tendered. The Govern- 

 ment of India is the natives' Kamdenu the cow 

 upon whom all have a claim, and whose powers of 

 supply are deemed alike everlasting and inexhausti- 

 ble. To bear the herculean weight of its burdens 



