The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . rcum-stances—deduces the worth of the tree from thefruit it bears. It does not follow his own treeyields any better. Although it might, in bothinstances, suggest the nature of the soil, andparticularly the cultivation could be studied toan advantage. V. THE NATIVE AND HIS MASTERS. Dave was iconoclastic to a degree frequentlystartling to me, and I cannot say I was alwayseasy in mind when I had him about me. Heknew so much of the inner life of the largercentres of Europe
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . rcum-stances—deduces the worth of the tree from thefruit it bears. It does not follow his own treeyields any better. Although it might, in bothinstances, suggest the nature of the soil, andparticularly the cultivation could be studied toan advantage. V. THE NATIVE AND HIS MASTERS. Dave was iconoclastic to a degree frequentlystartling to me, and I cannot say I was alwayseasy in mind when I had him about me. Heknew so much of the inner life of the largercentres of European activity, that more than onceI became apprehensive of possible results, a foreinkling of which might involve me in a mannernot altogether pleasant to contemplate. I was in India with letters of introduction and com-mendation from the Secretary of State, Lord Kim-berly, as well as from the Secretary of Colonies, theEarl of Ripon, and was, at the least, a semi-officialguest of the Indian government. Every possible at-tention was shown me, every courtesy extended, andin governmental, as in private and social circles, I. 38 TPIE NATIVE AND HIS MASTERS. was received with all honors bestowed when onescredentials are of the highest. Jnst here it should be said that if to theunthinking, and possibly to others, what may besaid in so plainly discussing things as they are inIndia, there appears at the first blush, a want ofappreciation of the exceeding kindness everywherereceived—a harsh return for a genial reception—strictly, as a matter of fact, my presenting existingconditions as strongly as within my power, couldnot exceed the directnCvSS and unequivocal waythey were put to me by the subjects of her Majestythemselves. When the Englishman is frank he is so to theextreme, and nowhere within the British domainis this more truly distinctive than in the a critic, and at home disposed tosaying his say, away from home the tendency isgiven even freer ^^ein, and
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