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latent resources and capabilities to the uttermost, and 

 until we are all willing to seize such opportunities and to 

 make the most of them, it will be impossible to develop 

 to the full the latent resources of our Empire. 



As this is the work that lies ahead of us I for one cannot 

 be too grateful both to the American Ambassador and to 

 our own Prime Minister for having uttered such words at 

 so opportune a moment, for, by urging that every man 

 and woman, above all, that each boy and girl, should be 

 given every opportunity possible to develop their powers of 

 thought and action, the development of the Empire can alone 

 be properly and adequately carried out. What we all need 

 is to be trained to think things out for ourselves, for this 

 constitutes the only sure means of turning our thoughts 

 and abilities to use and of being able to develop them for 

 the benefit of the immediate district in which we live as well 

 as of the Empire at large. Every statement, therefore, as 

 well as every institution brought into being that helps us to 

 think and, having started our thoughts in the right groove, 

 that helps us to develop them for the common good, is 

 rendering an inestimable service and providing the surest 

 means of helping us to build up the future prosperity of our 

 State. Those who think otherwise and want us to believe 

 that the State should develop itself rather than allow 

 individuals to do it for her, run a bad chance, so it seems 

 to me, of stifling the ambitions and the initiative of the 

 more pushing of the population and of not making use of 

 the vigour and energy of us all to help the common cause, 

 or of giving us the opportunity of developing ourselves to 

 the uttermost for the good of the State. State develop- 

 ment by the State must tend, on the other hand, to use its 

 people on the whole like so many labourers, each to do his 

 or her allotted task which has been set for them by others 

 whom chance or perhaps favouritism has placed above 

 their fellow creatures and against whom there is always 



