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roads, telegraphs, &amp;c., all of which are a source of wealth
which remains in India and makes her rich. If the
increased wealth of India does not meet with fair distribution,
 if it is apt to accumulate to the advantage of certain
classes, and does not reach the working masses of the
people in fair proportion, this is only what happens in all
countries ; this may be found in England, just as much as
in India, leading to the same results, stirring up the same
spirit of discontent, allied probably with much more real
misery. Political economists have yet to discover a
remedy for these
things. As for the
money bags which
[ndian officials are
supposed to carry with
them to England on
retirement, they are but
the dream of fancy!
English officials take
little with them to
[ndia, and it is certain
that they can carry
little out, nowadays.
A far more interesting
 subject for consideration
 in connection with the economic development
of India than financial statistics is to be found in her
industrial arts and manufactures.
Here we touch the threshold of the inner life of
India, and we realise something of the patient endurance
of her people through countless ages, which has developed
 such visible manifestation of that intricate and
careful thought which has directed hands gifted with
hereditary skill. If art is sacred anywhere, it is sacred in
India. Much of the religious mysticism which envelops
the Hindu religion finds expression in the symbols of
Hindu art. “No mediaeval artist working on his knees can
exceed in devotional spirit the potter working at his clay
n the village street, and the gold worker fashioning his
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