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people— more especially in the rural districts. At present villagers 

 may be loyal to their superiors, but they are rapidly awakening and 

 kicking at they know not what. Educate them, show yourselves to 

 be their true friends (insincerity will be fatal), not by doling out 

 gifts, but by helping them to help themselves. Let the more brilliant 

 of their children have every opportunity to rise in the social scale^ — to 

 compete with well-to-do children (who must in turn be stimulated). Let 

 the majority have a sound general education as well as a specialised one, 

 and they will realise that the higher social positions are not always beds 

 of roses, and they will serve you and your successors with true loyalty. 

 Hinder or neglect the work of education now, and assuredly before us 

 lies black night. That much of the land now lying derelict, or producing 

 poor farm crops, may - soon be brought into good garden condition, 

 affording work for the masses and profit for the owners and occupiers, 

 should be the devout hope of all. 



To gain this end we require educated gardeners and labourers, not as, 

 alas ! they are now too often educated, but that they may clearly see the 

 msdom of doing their work as it should be done, and to do it willingly and 

 honestly. And I urge those who can to help forward the work, but more 

 particularly I urge our workers, gardeners, and other acting and intending 

 cultivators of the soil to act for themselves ; to do their part and delay 

 not. 



