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SECTION VI. 

 DEVELOP INDIA. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 India — a Neglected Heritage. 



Tyopical Life, June, 191 6. 



An important paper was read at the invitation of the 

 Indian Section of the Royal Society of Arts on June i, by 

 Professor Wyndhain Dunstan, C.M.G., on the work done 

 by the Imperial Institute in the interest of India during the 

 last twenty years. Published in full in the pages of the 

 Journal of the Society of Arts, it clearly proved by the 

 lecturer's statements how very blind tlie people of this 

 country have been to the value of their own possessions, 

 although we have had such men as the Director of the 

 Imperial Institute and a long line of equally scientific and 

 practical workers standing with lighted torches in their 

 hands, pointing the way to that Aladdin's cave of riches 

 that has been ours for so long. 



Instead of following the direction pointed out, however, 

 this country has rather been contented to sit by the wayside, 

 and beckon to strangers without our gates to come in, 

 exploit, and carry off our treasures to manufacture or 

 otherwise turn into articles of commerce, and then re-sell 

 them to us at a huge profit — a profit which, in the aggre- 

 gate, has gone a long way to help these enemies keep up 

 the incessant rain of projectiles and bullets for nearly two 

 years with which they have been assailing us as if it were 

 a just reward for our stupidity and indolence. We say 

 this, as there is no doubt that indolence is very largely at 

 the bottom of our indifference and inability to utilize the 

 raw materials with which the British Empire abound, as 

 was shown in numberless cases by Professor Dunstan. It 

 was these defects that have caused us to allow and almost 

 to invite the Germans to develop our resources until we 

 learnt, too late to a certain degree, how much we needed 

 the manufactured products from our own raw materials, 



