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Government suitable to the progressive develop- 

 ment of society, should be delayed one moment 

 beyond that time when the condition of the people 

 renders them desirable. No inventions of modern 

 times have exercised such magical influence on 

 the progress of nations as Elec;ricity and Steam. 

 Telegraphic wires now connect the most distant 

 points of the Empire. Railroads are in rapid pro- 

 gress along all the great lines of communication 

 and trafic. Their effects will assuredly not be 

 wanting in accelerating the accomplishment of that 

 final task, to the completion of which the energies 

 of all are directed. Combine these forces, let all 

 work in harmony, and there can be little doubt 

 that everything that could be desired will follow- 

 so rapidly, as to astonish even the most sanguine 

 progressionist of the day. 



And of those questions which may be considered 

 with a view to ad interim measures, that which first 

 merits attention, and is of far more pressing import- 

 ance than the title of property in the soil, against 

 the principle of which not the breath of a murmur 

 has ever been raised is Labor. 



I have said above that it is popularly believed, 

 that there are millions of people in India starving 

 for want of employment.* Now this is a most 

 erroneous idea. Yet it cannot be confined to the 

 outside public, for it seems hardly credible that 



* Vide p. 184 supra. 



