The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India September 1882

I can only speak from the purely English point of view—that is of an English person in England ; and in speaking for those in this condition I must concede a degree of indifference not only to the natives but as to the country the history even the life and relations of the English community there. [...] And if we look to the place India holds in the annals of civilisation it is full of interest ; if we look at the world-old traffic between the East and West the spices ivory gold and gems brought by sea even before the time of Moses to the ports of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf by Sabieans and Phenicians ; and a still more ancient commerce by land of produce brought on the backs of camels ac [...] 509 revealed to us new kinship with the West has lifted the veil frona.the mysterious infancy of races and of languages ; and the old religions embalmed in the same mystical treasurhouse yet traceable in the rites and creeds of the present day not to-mention the old laws which as Sir Henry Maine tells us throw light on the earlier laws and institutions of the West. [...] By depriving themselves Of one part of their happiness they receive hundred fold and often more by increasing the happiness of the community at large ; by the expense of the health of one life the vigour and strength of a thousand lives are sustained by the sacrifice of one life millions of lives are saved. [...] The management of the customs the administration of justice and the direction of the police rested in the hands of a single English official with one Bengali gentleman as an assistant.