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-His removal to the Military Auditor's Office.—His
strong intellect first perceived by Mr. Mackenzie
and Colonel Champneys.-They aid its development.
-His rise in the Office.-Commences the Bengal
Recorder Newspaper.-Its failure.-Establishment of
the Hindoo Patriot.-Suicidal policy of Lord Dal-
housie. The Mutinies.-Harris's manly position.-Men-
tion of his writings and character by Mr. Norton
of Madras, and Dr. Russell of the London Times.—
Suppression of the Mutinies.-The cry of the Bengal
Ryot.-Harris's unwearied exertion in his cause.—His
ultimate success.-The British India Association.-Har-
ris's services with it.-The climax of his Fortune.-His
End....
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CHAPTER III.
INHERENT SOURCES OF HIS SUCCESS.
INHERENT Sources of success in life.-Poverty, the chief
impulse of activity in material and intellectual attain-
ments.-Melancholy history associated with literary life.
-Allegory of Consuelo.-Harris's poverty.-His earliest
avocation an incentive to his activity.-Conception of
education and learning among the illiterate Natives.—
Merivale's conclusion from Roman history.-Faults in
the character of Young India.--How removed?-Hasty
notions of his conduct.-Two great classes of Young
India how distanced?-A representative of the worst
class.--His career and life allegorically described.--His
dejection in after-life.--His want of perfect self-re-
liance. Harris prominently apart from his educated
countrymen in the possession of confidence of opinion.-
Cogency of feeling required to impel all internal decisions
into action.-Courage required to withstand the attacks
of ridicule and contempt from others.-Disraeli's bold
CONTENTS.
stroke of courage on his first appearance in Parliament.
-Baboo Harrischander possessed all the bolder virtues
of success. An incident in his School-life to illustrate
his noble disdain of all wrong and insult..
CHAPTER IV.
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CAUSES OF A WANT OF THE MAINSPRINGS OF SUCCESS IN THE
66 CHARACTER OF YOUNG INDIA."
UTTER want of early domestic training in India.-Instances
of Indian Women figuring as Authors and Poetesses of
eminence. The doctrine of Female Depravity, as pro-
pounded by the Rishees.-By Menu.-Woman's occupa-
tion in India. Her daily round of labours described.-
Her extreme fondness for begetting Children.-Puranas
quoted.-Present Female Education in India.-Absence
of all elementary information on it.—An observation of no
spirit of a change being wrought over the Girls by the
present system of education stated.-A scheme for the
higher training of Females.-Englishmen's aversion for
familiarity with the Natives in private life.-It is just and
merited.-Clever Women are of greater importance to
the world than clever Men.-Absence of Boarding-
Schools in India.-Its pernicious effects.-Physical har-
dihood of an Indian more of a forced character than
otherwise.-Strength and spirit required to uphold Na-
tional Rights....
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CHAPTER V.
EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES BEARING ON SUCCESS IN LIFE, AND
THOSE WHICH OPERATED ON HARRIS.
EXTERNAL influences from early Teachers.-The Mis-
sionary best adapted to be the Teacher of Youth.—Why,
however, he is disliked in India.-His undue zeal in
the propagation of his Religion.-Mr. Gaster quoted.-
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
CHAPTER VI.
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
CHAPTER VII.
IN WHAT RESPECTS WAS HARRIS A GREAT MAN?
A PERNICIOUS conception of greatness.-Genius and
talents over-estimated by the world.—Another class of
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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...
CHAPTER VIII.
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..
CHAPTER IX.
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-