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Rh consequent on increasing taxation, as greater than those of invasion. But these are not pages in which the question can be discussed.

Progress through order is the maxim of Indian administration. To the superficial observer the disorder of 1857 may seem impossible of recurrence. Everywhere the eye rests now upon railways, telegraphs, schools, municipalities, district boards, newspapers, English education. It is what the eye does not rest upon, however, which in all organisms is vital. Fanaticism, bigotry, poverty in high places, the pride of ancestry, the pretensions of caste, love of change, lust of adventure, that Bacchic fury which blazes out so unaccountably in the East, slumber lightly beneath the sprinkling of Western soil. To these, British rule has added new elements of complication, fresh groupings of bodies, more active interchange of native opinion, wider combination, growing knowledge, the germs of strange hopes. The art of British government in India has hitherto been not to destroy, but to correct, Eastern methods of administration by applying to them the discipline of the Western mind. Now, it is the indisciplined Eastern mind which is to introduce into India Western methods of administration. The experiment will prove of interest, and, it is earnestly to be hoped, of value. But the lesson of 1857 must not be forgotten. Whatever may be hazarded with the educated minority, the real India is to be found only in the masses of her ignorant millions. To govern this real India