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The passage between School and Manhood.-How is

individual character determined?-Requisites in the

moulding of character.--When and where is fate or

destiny determined?—The preponderance of the roman-

tic over the sober tendency ruinous.-The fate of

Eugene Aram.-The critical pass in the case of Baboo

Harrischander how signalised.—His “being born again." 112

HIS ENERGY AND AMBITION DIRECTED TO A SPECIFIC COURSE.

IMPORTANCE of a specific course of life.-Two subdivisions

of the better class of Young India.-The worst described.

-Our so-called Savants.-Their vanity and presump-

tion.—Their dishonesty in essays and books.—An auda-

cious attempt of this kind stated.—The fate of a young

man who begins to work in earnest.—The daily labours

of a so-called Savant, and men of his class.--Observa-

tions of contemptible ignorance of the most rudimentary

knowledge and learning stated.--The "domestic literary

treason" of the elder Disraeli.—Study pursued in India

more as a means to rise than as an end in itself.--Want

of earnestness and pre-calculation with Young India in

all his undertakings.--He justly meets with the discom-

fiture of Alnascar.--Harris prominently distinct in his

traits of character.--His pursuit of knowledge as an end,

not as a means.--His remarkable zeal after learning.--

His manner of spending leisure.-A remarkable scene in

the mock Bengalee Temple.-Who achieves success?.. 126

IN WHAT RESPECTS WAS HARRIS A GREAT MAN?

A PERNICIOUS conception of greatness.-Genius and

talents over-estimated by the world.-Another class of

heroes. Heroes of the heart.-Their fate.-The most

apparent not always the most important or most inter-

esting.-Profession of Literature.-Charles Lamb's ad-

vice thereon.-Peculiarly apt for Young India to bear in

mind.-Harris's works.-Patriots of all classes have a

family likeness.-Harris no less a Patriot than the great-

est patriot of the world.-Harris's real staff of greatness.

-The rights and position of a great mind.-Difference

between it and the insignificant.

THE POETRY OF HIS HEART.

FEELING nature of his character.-Poverty unlocks the best

sympathies of the heart.-Harris's grateful remembrance

of past favours.-Emotion at mention of the name of his

first kind Teacher. His irrefragable ties of gratitude

and reverence to Colonel Champneys.-His neglect of

self-interest and advancement for the sake of the Colo-

nel.-Harris and Rammohun Roy.--Military glory and

valour not wanting in India even in her degenerate

days.--Her intellectual vigour yet unsurpassed.--Social

battle is the last achievement of humanity.--India has

yet to fight it.--Harris did not commence it.--Nor has

it yet commenced.-The Social Science Association in

England.-A similar Institution for India recommend-

ed.-Necessity for Educated Natives travelling in India.—

An "Indian Travelling Fellowship."-Natives alone ca-

pacitated to describe social anomalies...

THE LONGEST, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN THE

BOOK REGENERATION OF INDIA.

Two theories for the amelioration of the people--Which

preferred.-Danger from the present hopeless condition

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of the people.--The Empires of the World.--Of the

Cæsars, Baber, and Napoleon.-Uniqueness of British

domination.--The present time pre-eminently fitted for

undertaking the task of Popular Education in India.--

Review of the History of Indian Education.-Its three

epochs.--Government System of Education faulty.-Dis-

tinction between general and special education.-Every

man, however low and grovelling, receives all life long

some education or other.-In India there is in one sense

no general education.--Percentage of boys that finish a

complete course of general instruction.-A mournful

question.-Necessity of rendering Colleges self-support-

ing.-Grounds for viewing the measure as easy of accom-

plishment.-Percentage of boys receiving elementary

education.--The state of this education.-Number of

Schools in the Bombay Presidency.-Statistics of Popu-

lation in the different divisions of British India.-The

educational requirements of each calculated in compari-

son with some of the States of Europe. With reference

to Primary Schools.--With reference to Teachers.-

Unfitness of the present Staff even in the highest English

Seminary. The number of Normal Colleges and of In-

spectors required.--The people too poor to join the

Schools.--Their popular notions on Englishmen's leaving

India for their Mother Country.--Great misapprehension

among Englishmen with reference to the wants of the

people.-Advocacy of the German method of popular in-

struction.-Striking resemblance in the state of Germany

and of India.--Our present system of education not

essentially differing from the German, though so popu-

larly taken. Mere Schools and School Training ineffec-

tual to work any change among the people.-The French

Colportage described.-Establishment of a Committee

for the diffusion of knowledge advocated.-The present

state of Prose and Poetry in the Vernacular.-The es-

tablishment of Clubs advocated.-What is our present

national strength and vigour ?—A new order of thought

and morality, as yet unknown to the world, evolved in

India. A Summary of our Scheme...

REGENERATION OF INDIA-ANOTHER MEANS.

THE two classes of writers on India.-Two dangers to

India.—The difficulties of making a successful stand in

the Punjab against the Russians stated.-Confidence and

a feeling of Patriotism more requisite on the defensive

line of operations, than strength and discipline.-Warlike

tribes of Upper India, and their ambition.-The only

measure to avert the danger is Colonisation.-Colonisa-

tion of two sorts.-That which we ask for India different

from all colonisations to America and Australia, and

beneficial to India only. The presence of the English

Settlers also beneficial, in checking all abuse of official

power in the interior.—English settlement will enhance

our crops and resources.-Art wholly wanting in the

Native Peasant.-Anglo-Saxon zeal for improvement.—

The Anglo-Indian Government worse than the Roman

and Mahomedan, in their zeal for public works of utility.-

Difference between Calcutta and Delhi or Agra.-All

extensive conquests preserved by Colonisation.-English

settlement peculiarly beneficial to Young India.-Rights

will then be more liberally granted. A question to Young

India.-England's mission in India threefold.....

A CHAPTER OF NONSENSE, IF IT BE SO UNDERSTOOD. THE

FUTURE OF INDIA IN THE EAST.

ENGLAND'S capacity for foreign acquisition and colonisation

compared with other mighty powers of Europe.--With

Italy. With Spain.-With Portugal.-With Holland.—

With France.-The Anglo-Saxon Colony carries away

all other Colonies before it.-The finger of God traced

in the progress of the British in the East.-The tendency

and course of the Empires of the World.-Civilisation

not likely to end in America.—It is returning to the land

of its birth.-Dr. Arnold's theory of Civilisation examin-

ed and refuted.—The prospect of another and mightier

Civilisation. It will commence from India.-Our

grounds for so supposing.-Bright future for Young

India. His future Religion.....

THE FUTURE OF INDIA AND THE EAST CONTINUED.

DR. ARNOLD's view of History not wholly desponding.-

Guizot's just discernment of History.—The grounds of

Dr. Arnold's theory. His opponents.-Mr. Greg in

England, and the Author of "Lectures on Man" in

America. Their advocacy of Negro civilisation.—Their

errors not essentially differing from Dr. Arnold.-Ex-

posed on an historical survey.-Twofold tendency of

Arabian Civilisation.-Greek, Roman, and Modern Eu-

ropean Civilisation Arian in origin.-Celts and Teutons

of Europe. Their stream of Emigration from Asia.—

Arians never found as a fishing or hunting tribe.—

Distinction between Arabian or Mogul progress and that

of the Arian nations.-Freedom only enjoyed by the

Arians.-A glorious page always to be found in the

history of the Arian nations.-Capability of degeneracy

among the Arians.--The superior prerogative of the

Arians even in the lowest state of civilisation.-Sup-

posed influence of the climate insufficient to account

for the intellectual and moral differences among races.-

Influences of Government and religion also insufficient

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