lanthropists, and to consider only how we can best improve the moral and political condition of the Indian population, we may govern them as we would govern one another, and the sooner we can make them wise enough and strong enough to expel us from the country, the greater will have been our success. If we go as subjects of England, for the extension of English power and the improvement of English interests, a different course must be pursued. We may govern them as kindly as we can, — it is our interest as well as our duty to do so ; but we must retain all substantial power in our own hands, and must remember that, be our objects what they may, the natives of India can never stand upon the same level with ourselves, — they must be either above us or below us." This evidence was only recently quoted by the late lamented Major-General Sir Mark Cubbon, in the papers that he furnished upon the re-organisation of the army in India, and appears in the Supplementary Blue-book upon the subject.
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