Evening star., 1923-09-30


the other we find something entirely
different, a new growth also, but Of
absolutely different structure and
different capabilities. something ac-
cidental and precarious and mani
testify provisional. A London COM
pany running a system of trading
stations acquired almost inadvert-
emily amidst a wild political Welter
in India the empire of the Great
Mogul. Great Britain has taken
over this company's possessions, en-
Iarged them, given India peace and
a certain unity, educated her people
but not widely nor sufficiently-de-
veloped her resources, but not very
generously, and manifestly has but
the vaguest ideas of her future. The
educational and intellectual develop
ment of the British people has not
kept pace with this rapid expansion
of British responsibilities. Our world
responsibilities have increased
hundredfold in the last century,
but our educated class, our supply
of potential rulers, directors and the
like, our university organizations,
have not increased tenfold.
1t is an open question whether on
the whole we have most hampered or
benefited India. Or vice versa. But
at any rate it must be clear that the
association of the Indian system with
The dominion system is an accidental
and transitory association. They both
happen to be parts of the British
empire. but there is no necessary
connection. The two move at diff
terent rates and in divergent dfrec-
tions. A man may bel know Aus
traIians who are-what I may call a
dominion n-imperialist, but not an In
dian He may believe. as
I do. in the need for a sedulous pres
ervation and intensif1cation of the
intellectual community of the Eng
lish- speaking peoples and in an at
tentive care for every possibility OF
understanding and sympathetic CO.
operation with the United States OF
America, and at the same time he
may be as convinced as I am of our
duty and obligation to educate and
for separation, for a friendly and in
dependent existence within the world
commonweal of peoples.
"Drnw Nearer to America"
We British have not sufficient
natura, moral and intellectual su-
periority to the Indian peoples, we
have not a sufficiently organized
educational system nor a sufficient
production of highly educated men tc
Justify our continued usurpation OF
midas right to think out and work
out its own role in the confederation
CT mankind. And we are different
from these dusky peoples; we do not
work with them easily; we hamper
them and they hamper US intolerably
But released from our ENHANCEMENT
with a population six or seven times
as numerous as our own, our en-
tanglement with this great mix-up OF
temperamentally alien peoples, the
British and the associated English
speaking communities scattered
around the earth, extending theiI
educational organization and devel-
oping their still crude intellectual
and political possibilities, may play
a modest and yet leading part ir
that great synthesis which will ulti-
mately give the world enduring
peace. "Disentang1e from India
draw nearer to America, come ou,
of and keep out Of ententes and
alliances upon the continent of Eu-
rope; these are the broad lines upon
which I conceive the British system
may best serve itself and mankind.
So far. have considered the Brit
ish empire only from the points OF
view of the English-speaking do.
ninions and of India. I will leave
Egypt and Palestine, as they ought
to be left, outside the discussion
They are, take it, relaxing pro
tectorates. Nor will I say more thai