The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress in India January 1881

The following report appeared in the Tinus :— After directing attention to the physical and moral features of India and its peoples Sir A. Hobhouse pointed out the diffculty of the subject with which he had to deal reminding his hearers of the size of India and the diversity of its geographical character. [...] Briefly describing the civilized condition of some communities he referred to the importance of remembering the vitality and power of Indian religious thought and sketching some amusing and some shocking pictures of the extreme barbarity of other communities adverted to the growth among the most debased tribes of the feeling against the custom of making human sacrifices. [...] Eliot James shows the needlessnes§ of the outcry raised against the moderate duty imposed on imported cotton goods of the better kind ; the result of the recent remission of duty.(which deprived the revenue of.X750 000) being that the coarser material used by the poor i3 now "increased. [...] " My blood in the transit tinged with red the green bowers For the tufts of the holly and the stiff blades of the rushes. And the thorns and the brambles rising upwards like towers Had laced a sharp barrier round the home of the flowers In the glade when I came oh how deep were 'the blushes! Flowers—lowers quite a sea —and a twilight that hushes!" We will also give an example-of a shor [...] unless there was the strain power to work with beforehand ? Who would produce those elaborate mathematical investigations of the motions of the earth sun planets and stars unless there was the art of navigation as a scientific basis to start with 7 So the cultivation of science depends in a great measure on the advancement of art and this on the recNrements of society.