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Hindus, or any members of the Aryan race. Yet 

 undoubtedly, there is sufficient difference between us 

 and the Hindus to form a serious difficulty in the 

 way of that understanding and relianceship which 

 is the basis of all friendly and happy intercourse. I 

 would not say that the fault is theirs, and still less 

 that it is ours ; rather it rises unavoidably from the 

 intractability of human nature, and its incapacity for 

 making rapid transitions without losing much of what 

 is most admirable in it. But Mr Forbes wisely puts 

 in the qualification that it is "as a people" that the 

 Hindus are so different from us ; and, making due 

 allowance for superficial differences of manner and 

 mode of thought, there are among them admirable 

 men, who can be met with a feeling of perfect con- 

 fidence on that somewhat indefinitely bounded yet 

 very real elevation of calm good sense, of unselfish- 

 ness and kindly sympathetic feeling, of enlarged and 

 imprejudiced intellect, of devotion to immediate 

 practical good combined with a desire to further the 

 higher possibilities of the human race, of a natural 

 unaffected courtesy, and of all the collateral qualities 

 which create the real nobility of the human race, that 

 nobility Avhich it is one of the peculiar glories of Eng- 

 land to have heartily recognised as an ever-enlarging 

 'circle which can be entered from every quarter, from 

 every clime and condition of life, and whose golden 

 gates, though they may occasionally for a moment 

 admit the gilded lackeys of civilisation, and other 



