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patiently submit the neck to a yoke, necessitated 

 by the deliberate alienation of their own property, 

 by their Sovereign whose special province it was to 

 protect it. 



India is undoubtedly a rich country ; her resour- 

 ces indeed seem almost inexhaustible; and, assum- 

 ing peace and good Government, that she will be 

 yet both wealthy and prosperous, there is little room 

 to doubt. But, if there is little room to doubt this, 

 there is still less room to doubt that she will not 

 assume that position among the nations of the world 

 to which her national capabilities give her every right 

 to aspire, one hour before those conditions under 

 which other nations have emerged from darkness 

 are found : or in other words, before her people are 

 EDUCATED, ENLIGHTENED and THEE. Any number of 

 novel experiments, will certainly not hasten by one 

 moment the approach of the wished for time; but, 

 on the contrary, if calculated to irritate the people, 

 will be far more likely to postpone it, and possibly 

 to create such a feeling of suspicion, distrust, and 

 hostility to the ruling power, as to render it a matter 

 of extreme difficulty to initiate any reforms at all. 



But were it otherwise were it as probable that the 

 anticipated advantages would follow the redemption 

 of the land revenue, as it is certain that they would 

 not, there is one insuperable obstacle to the measure 

 at present, which cannot be got over. Had this 

 been foreseen, it would have prevented this extremely 



