A Study in Ideals: Great Britain and India

In India a complication has arisen in an apparent antagonism between the Government and the people the Government having become suspicious of the loyalty of the people and afraid lest their aims be not to improve but to subvert authority while the people charge the officials of the Government with a want of the sense of duty and Qg the faculty of observation with subservience to interested fore [...] As heir to the Throne the King sent to India a message of sympathy ; as holder of the Imperial Crown he gave to India the watchword of hope—hope of sharing with his European subjects the duties rights and responsibilities of British citizenship by fusion of the culture of the East and the West. [...] But the continu-ENTHUSIASM OF LEADERS 25 ance and ultimate success of the struggle between light and darkness between progress and decay between the interests of a few and the welfare of mankind depend not upon the resistance of the advocates of stagnation but upon the zeal and enthusiasm of the leaders of idealism. [...] Christian Scriptures and Occidental Sages have described the entry of death into the world and other woes " to the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge but the fruit which produces the seed of decay and destructierP and is the cause of all human miseries comes of the tree of Ignorance and its branches misunderstanding and distrust. [...] With the wider diffusion of copetence and with the development of independence the disposition to worship the possessor of wealth is diminishing ; but as in politics people rush to revolution and anarchy to avoid tyranny so the snobbery of worship of the wealthy is giving place to the worship of popular prominence.