This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...All Souls, Reader in Indian Law in the University of Oxford. c The white man's prestige. 'It would be a mistake to suppose that in the loyalty of India at the present moment we have attained everything; we have really attained little, except an immense opportunity. It depends how we use it. We shall be less able after ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...All Souls, Reader in Indian Law in the University of Oxford. c The white man's prestige. 'It would be a mistake to suppose that in the loyalty of India at the present moment we have attained everything; we have really attained little, except an immense opportunity. It depends how we use it. We shall be less able after the war than before to take our stand in India on some supposed superiority of the white man, as such. We have given way on that ground. And to any one who would tell us that our sacrifice of the white man's prestige is rash and foolish, we can answer that in any case, even apart from the war, circumstances were forcing us from that ground. As European education spread in India, as India awoke more and more to the modern world, that ground would have become increasingly untenable. Sooner or later, if India remained a member of the British Empire, it would be because India chose the association voluntarily, intelligently, with head held high. By admitting India to co-operation in a European war, we have accelerated the disappearance of the old imaginative awe.' From Brothers All: The War and the Race Question. By Edwyn Bevan. The Dominions and Devils. German Colonies. 'The citizens of the British Dominions, no less than the citizens of the United States, are a proud people, not accustomed to toe the line at the command of any one. Consider them confronted with the overwhelming insolence of a Germany that had humbled their past bulwark, the sea power of Great Britain. Doubtless for Canada and Australasia, no less than for the United States, the new situation would demand a new policy, and, so far from the devil of militarism being expelled, it would invade the New World, with seven more devils in its wake. On the other hand, by championing the c...
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