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are hut a means to an end, and that though in the 

 attainment of this end, the interests of both races 

 may be well served, as long as the existence of 

 the one race is exotic, the interests of both must 

 in no small degree be antagonistic. Englishmen in 

 India, from this point of view, are useful only in 

 so far as they supplement the deficiencies of the 

 natives, for, birds of passage as they are, if they 

 bring one rupee into the country, it is only that 

 they may take two, or more probably four, out 

 of it. India, is certainly the one rupee richer; 

 but still the two or four poorer than if the developers 

 were true sons of the soil. 



It is Education then, to which England must look 

 as the true means of effecting such a regeneration in 

 the people of India, as will make them a willing 

 instrument in the hands of an enlightened and 

 upright Government to work out their own pros- 

 perity ; and it is by the force of example, that lever 

 which Arnold held to be of first importance in the 

 philosophy of education, that the English developer, 

 will prove so able and so valuable a help to the Govern- 

 ment of India. Under the circumstances, it caimot 

 but be a source of deep and sincere regret to those 

 who wish India well, to see a department, of all those 

 of a Government the most powerful in its influence 

 for good, or for evil a department on the efficient 

 and judicious administration of which must ultimately 

 depend the solution of the very difficult problem on 



