Indian Nationalism

Now it is right that analogies of the past should help us in dealing with the things of the present : to some extent the experience of the race is bound to take the form of generalisations. [...] The fact however that the other motive the self-regarding one was the determining one in the first instance and remains there always alongside of the altruistic motive in the case both of India and Egypt makes some people impatient with all this talk of the good of the ruled. [...] In the case of India it is quite true that the driving motive in the advance of the British rule was not concern for the happiness of the Indian peoples. [...] The former issue is the only one worthy of reasonable beings : it is the one to which 1 believe the better part of the British people the more far-seeing and sympathetic members of the official service in India look forward. [...] And just as to-day we are convinced in contrast to the attitude of the olfashioned Papas in the storp:books that our children really respect us more if we admit our failings so I believe that the hold of the British Government upon the reverence of the Indian people has been sensibly90 INDIAN NATIONALISM increased and not diminished by the stern public visitation of wrongs committed by E