“I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.”
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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.