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 if the greatest possible progress is to be made. The words of Lord Ronaldshay, Governor of Bengal, apply to culture as well as to government in India. 'The future of the land we live in may be likened to a splendid edifice built up on a firm foundation of pillared arches. The pillars are the two great races, whose lot has been so strangely intertwined by the fingers of Providence — the Indians and the British. The keystones of the arches are the will on the part of both races to understand and co-operate with one another in this task.'

The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.

Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.