OPINION OF LORD HARRIS. 415 



has been called forth among the young, by holding examinations, 

 and by the distribution of a few prizes ; and I feel certain that it 

 only requires the means to diffuse instruction more extensively, 

 to cause a rapid and general improvement in the mental, and I 

 hope also, in the moral state of the population ; to what pitch of 

 advancement they are capable of attaining, still remains to be 

 proved." (Lord Harris.) 



This opinion of a nobleman who governed this colony for six 

 years, and to which I give full and unqualified assent, contains 

 the condemnation of a government which manifests the greatest 

 indifference towards, not to say contempt for, the improvement 

 of the mental and moral being of the much-abused people of 

 Trinidad. 



