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Rh he had successfully insisted on justice being done at the risk of a tumult .' They are an instance of the principle that we should do what is right without fear of consequences. To fear God and to have no other fear is a maxim of religion, but the truth of it and the wisdom of it are proved day by day in politics.'

I have now briefly told the story of Lord Dalhousie's work in India. I am painfully conscious that there are many of his acts, indeed whole departments of his all-pervading activity, that I have been compelled, by want of space, to leave out of the narrative. But I shall have written in vain, if I have written a single sentence which is not justified by the authoritative records of his rule. For I feel that the man was so great, that his policy was so prescient, and that his work has been so enduring, that one word of exaggeration or overstatement would be alike a disobedience to his dying wish, and a disloyalty to his memory.