Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

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