Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . -gal, which then in-cluded the province Aggregate of Ot jAS- subjects under c a iti the provincial government. had a population of sixty-six million eighthundred and fif-ty-six thousandeight hundred andf if ty-nine , beingfully equal to thatof the entire UnitedStates at the presenttime. We thus havethe remarkable spec-tacle of a lieutenantgovernor sent outfrom London, a dis-tance of six thou-sand miles, to pre-side over a conge-
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . -gal, which then in-cluded the province Aggregate of Ot jAS- subjects under c a iti the provincial government. had a population of sixty-six million eighthundred and fif-ty-six thousandeight hundred andf if ty-nine , beingfully equal to thatof the entire UnitedStates at the presenttime. We thus havethe remarkable spec-tacle of a lieutenantgovernor sent outfrom London, a dis-tance of six thou-sand miles, to pre-side over a conge-ries of nations farexceeding the entirepopulation of theUnited Kingdom ofGreat Britain andIreland! The ele-rnents under this government-gal was only one of many provinces un-der British dominion—were so diversifiedand contradictory as to make a govern-mental problem which no nation otherthan England would have had the polit-ical courage to undertake or the skill tosolve. The people thus aggregated presentedevery type of the human evolution, fromsheer barbarism and the grossest formsof superstition to a high degree of humanenlightenment. Educated native noble-. GROUP OF HINDU WEAPONS OF WAR. -and Ben- men from Bengal, full of the skepticalspirit of modern times, have The Hindus pre-come to London as dip- T^^ZS:^lomats, have sat in the evolution,clubs of that metropolis, and deliveredspeeches at public dinners among law-yers, bishops, and statesmen as skillfulat fence, as witty, and almost as schol-
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