Indian Nationalism. An Independent Estimate

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. [...] When we think of the Roman Peace" extended over a congeries of diverse racas and states for centuries of wild fighting peoples taught the majesty of one reasonable Law of the strong straight roads going out to all quarters of the similar milestones measuring the distance from one centre found in Scotland and in Syria of how the consciousness of belonging to a splendid world-state dignified [...] 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. [...] ing from facts gathered in one part of the Indian field—the Mahratta country—but ifTHE CASE FOR THE EMPIRE 37 the special form under which the disunion of India appears in that part is jealous antagonism on the part of the Brahmans to the inferior castes it is true over the whole field we are told that men are guided far more by the interests of the smaller groups to which they may belong—the c