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 fession' of political ‘faith’ in refreshing language, it seeks, in a spirit of more than political faith, “to pluck consolation and even hope from our sorrows and to sight the vision of a renaissance even through the gloom of despondence,” by tracing how the prospects are not so gloomy and circumstances so irremediable.” ”In all frankness and in all friendliness” and out of a firm belief in the ‘providential’ alliance of England and India, it reminds the rulers how the “crisis” came, “the period of guardianship and tutelage having been prolonged beyond the natural limits”; and impresses upon the ruled“ how, the age of autocracy gone, the age of democracy can be saved from confusion and disruption only by a vigorous cultivation of the habit of mutual help and conscious co-operation on the basis of perfect equality.’' Such, we are led to understand, are the moorings of “the true moderate,” happily defined as one “who knows how to labour and to wait, w'ho delights to do his duty and trusts to his, partner's good-will to do his, who is loyal from a sense of the right