१३५ गुलामगिरी educated Brahmin who knows his exact position and how he has come by it, will not condescend to acknowledge the errors of his forefathers and willingly forego the long cherished false notions of his own superiority. At present not one has the moral courage to do what only duly demands, and as long as this countinues, one sect distrusting and degrading another sect, the condition of the Sudras will remain unaltered, and India will never advance in greatness or prosperity. Perhaps a part of the blame in brining matters to this crisis may be justly laid to the credit of the Government. Whatever may have been their motives in providing ampler funds and greater facilities for higher education and neglecting that of the masses, it will be acknowledged by all that in justice to the latter this is not as it should be. It is an admitted fact that the greater portions of the revenues of the Indian Empire are derived from the Ryot's labor-from the sweat of his brow. The higher and richer classess contribute little or nothing to the State exchequer. A well informed English writer states that,- "Our income is derived, not from surplus profits, but from capital; not from luxuries but from the poorest necessaries. It is the products of sin and tears." That Government should expend profusely a large portion of revenue thus raised, on the education of the higher classess, for it is these only who take advantage of it, it anything but just or equitable. Their object in patronising this virtual high class education appears to be to prepare scholars, "Who, it is thought would in time vend learning without money and without price. If we can inspire." say they "the love of knowledge in the minds of the superior classes, the result will be a higher standard of morals in the cases of the individuals, a large amount of affection for the British Government, and an unconquerable desire to spread among their own countrymen the intellectual blessings which they have received." Regarding these objects of Government the writer, above alluded to, states that :- “We have never heard of philosophy more benevolent and more utopian. It is prosposed by men who witness the wondrous changes brought about in the Western world, purely by the
