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JAMES THOMASON
eighteen years of age. According to the ideas of the present generation he was pressed into the arena of life too fast. Moreover, out of the then total of his years, the first ten had been already spent in India, and the last eight only in England. These latter had, indeed, like so many precious talents, been put to such exceeding good use, that his somewhat premature entry into Anglo-Indian life did not affect his mental and moral growth.
