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and markets and public Crores must be spent upon river improvements and buildings of every kind. sanitation, other crores on canals for navigation in Bengal, and yet more crores on fifty other kinds works of general public utility. I have given this sketch Gentlemen, so as to set you scale. when of our thinking We have thought too long in lakhs of we ought to have thought in crores. vast resources of this country bilities of prosperity will realised so long as 'we commensurate with these and the untold requirements, on the right rupees The possi- remain undeveloped and un- fail to think upon a scale wide territories and their huge population. I beg you always to have before you or l?ndy for frequent reference, two maps of India, one showing the physical features of the showing the latest census. country by colored coptours, the other density of. population according to the them Ponder that 90 per physically well; and think over these facts: cent of this territory is undeveloped ascendant; and is the vast grow larger and for ever to a state of extreme poverty ? God forbid that we prove unable to face our task; in- capable of bringing about the requisite changes with the speed required. England and India have accompl. ished their work well upon the greatest battlefields of his- tory. Are the back in slothful rance of. things times of peace to find us sinking complacency to a continued accep- as they are ? Indeed, I hope nok us, is for ever in the proletariat merely to remain depressed in hesitating manner, changing things so slowly that the natural increase of population, always working against speaking undeveloped. Are we to leave them so? Are we to continue toying with our tasks in a according to Wesbern standards and 95 per cent of this thickly crowded population is humanly