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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...

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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.....

CHAPTER XI.

A CHAPTER OF NONSENSE, IF IT BE SO UNDERSTOOD.

FUTURE OF INDIA IN THE EAST.

ENGLAND'S capacity for foreign acquisition and colonisation

compared with other mighty powers of Europe.---With

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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.....

CHAPTER XII.

THE FUTURE OF INDIA AND THE EAST CONTINUED.

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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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on this score. Individual exceptions always to be found

among the Arian tribes and Negro races.-Third ground

of our theory.-The origin of all differences amongst the

Arians and other races, especially the Negro, to be

traced in the unfathomable plan of Providence.-Civili-

sation has been running Westward during the last three

thousand years.-It is now in the extreme West of the

world. In the usual tendency it must hence come East-

ward.--India is the only country to receive it.—Charac-

teristics of modern civilisation.-Anomalies of modern

civilisation.-Can the present be the latest stage of

human destiny?—Three principal causes of our social

anomalies. Supposition of the present exhaustion of all

human capability insufficient to disprove future progress.

-How every
science and art may be considerably

advanced without supposing our capability being at all

increased, or the force and scope of the action of our

mind enlarged.-We are not chimerical in our specula-

tions...

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CHAPTER XIII.

CONCLUSION.

END of the Work.-The Author plainly perceives its

defects. But a first essay is always defective.—The two

parts of the Work.-The lessons of both.-India's time

for regeneration.-Every individual has a share in the

work of regeneration.-It must be fulfilled in spite of all

opposition and slander....

APPENDIX A.

APPENDIX B..

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LIGHTS AND SHADES.

CHAPTER I.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET OF HARRIS. PHILOSOPHY more liberal than the World in its estimate of

character.-Baboo Harrischander appreciated more by the former than the latter.-Change in the East since the advent of the English.-Eastern and Western Prophecies relating to the Supremacy of the Europeans in India.-Lights and Shades of India.-The Scholar and the Philanthropist more needed in the East than the Historian.-The object of the treatise rather moral, and suggestive of Reform, than historical.-Picture presented by Baboo Harrischander in early life.-Contrast afforded at the close.-Stirrings in the outer world upon his Death.-A question as to his Life.Grounds of our investigation.

"I, demens, et sœvas curre per Alpes
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias ?"
JUVENAL.

Ir has been rightly observed, that the world is by no means the right discerner of worth. Not that it deliberately awards praise where only censure is due; and whatever errors it may be led into at the onset, its judgment is in time