The Late K. T

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Excerpt from The Late K. T: Telang, and the Present Political Movement in IndiaBut beyond this select group there is a larger class of edu cated natives of which it may be broadly stated that it has proved disappointing. The effect produced on them resembles that which the Romans under Agricola wrought upon the ancient Britons, as noticed by Tacitus in the life of his great kinsman Quz' mode lingnam Romanum abnuebant, aloquen tz'am concupiscerent. Inde etiam habitus nost'rz' honor at fre quens toga. Paulatz'mque discessum ad delem'menta vitiorum, portions et balnea et conviviorum elegantz'am.' With them English pleasures and dress, and, above all, English eloquence, have proved most attractive and in¿uential. Instead of trying to regenerate their countrymen, and working soberly and steadily to bring them up, if not quite to the level of Western nations - which it is doubtful they can ever attain, at least to one approaching theirs, from which they can safely and wisely profit by those European political ideas and institutions that are in their present state unsuited and perhaps hurtful to them, these men are trying to put the cart before the horse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.