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ing lands and exterminating their inhabt-
ants. Our introduction of christianity into
India has only taught the natives to wear
Paisley shawls instead Of cashmere; and in
Australasia the ''chrstian aid" that we have
rendered has been principally to help pous
farmers to convict labor"
The above is hardly a sufficiently cumpre-
hensive view of the conditions surrounding
such subject, and at first sight affords an
unjust judgment upon the nation that
takes in hand the business of colonizing or
christianizng.
The English government has not taken in
hand the matter of christianizinp India. for
it is a matter of notoriety that the uniyersi-
ties of Hindostan, established by the British
government, are strictly undenominational,
as also are the common schools. The policy
of England has latterly been that of non
interference with the religion of its depend
encies. The Buddhist or Moslem, or the
Guebre students at the universities follow
their own inclination. There is state
church, the Church of England, with its
Hierarchy of bishops, but it has only semi
political recognition, depending entirely
upon its social connection with England.
There are no enactments upon the statutes
OF Hindostan or England by which Hin
dostani is required to conform with the state
religion, nor does the natives non-conform-
ity with the Church of England debar him.
in the slightest degree from aspirations to
political office. Thousands of prominent
natives, retaining publicly the full practice
of their ancient religion, hold Office under
the British Government in India from the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to the
most obscure tax gatherer The other day
during an intermisson of appointments of
Goyernor-General of India, the temporary
government of the land fell, through pre-
cedence of Office, upon native Hindoo.not a
christian. The criticism upon England as a
political power therefore, of failing TO chris
tianize, coupled with the inference that
That intention was part of it's py@iected
policy fails as an animadversion upon that
country. Its missionary office is that Of
civilization. In that mission it has done
well and has done infinitely better than sim
Ply clothing the natives with Paisley shawls
or in stealing their, lands. The Church of
England, as established in India, is not
political power and what it has lacked in
accomplishing, or what, on the other hand
1t may lay claim to have done, is in no way
either to be credited to English govern
mental jurisdiction or to be cited to the dis
advantage of England politically.
In the broad sense, implied by Mr.. Rus
kin's animadversion that British rule has
been unsuccessful except in the crude way
his remarks would infer, or that the methods
of that government in "civiizing" barbar-
GUS people are reprehensible, that gentleman
stands controverted both in ancient and
modern history. How have we civilized the
Indian? Our method is not very different
from extirpaton! How, at present, are the
French civilzing the Chinese9 Their
method is with iron-clads aud Armstrong
guns! How are the Russians civilizing the
Iartars of Central Asia? Generals Gourko |
and skobelof did it by wholesale massacre!
In ancient times, the Romans, the most sue
eessful colonizers and civiizers the world of
the past has seen, Jhrashed the Gauls, the
Alemanni, the Belges, and Britons into sub
lection. They used the sword first and
then taught their vassals all the arts of civ
ilized life. In ancient Britain Julius Caesar
and Suetonius Paulnus first appeared with
Roman legions, ruthlessly subjugating our
semi-nude forefathers. In a battle, at
Londinum, (the present London) nearly
1000 years ago, $4,000 British were slain by
the Romans.
When the island was in measure snb-
dued, the Roman governors Hadrian and
Agricola succeeded. Under their gentler
protectorates roads were built across the
island from north to south, and east to west,
some of which exist to-day (Gor instance
Waiting street, nigh 1000 years old)-
agriculture, was taught the rude sayagcs,
baths and residences, as beautiful as any of
our marble palaces of to-day, in fact tile
inhabitants were coerced into civilization.
This was the process carried on by Rome
throughout her annals of conquest, and she
was successful. England's record with
India has been similar Since the days of
Give, Warren Hastings, Wellesley the
Napiers and the rest of the great conquerors
of India, Epgland's policy has been one
of dressing into shape, into condition
available for nineteenth century civilization
the immense hordos of Hindostan. How, in
the light of present conditions does that
vast Asiatic peninsula the jewel of the east,
stand in contrast to its fellow nations =?
Compare its condition with China, or Arabia,
or Persia Or any other Asatic land India
is intersected with canals, railroads and the
telegraph. Her cotton trade, fact before
unknown has influenced, in Liverpool the