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extraordinary degree, all his best qualities. His
duties as a magistrate, judge, and administrator,
begin almost from the day of his admission to the
service, and are prosecuted throughout his career
on a scale, and to an extent, far exceeding what
is attained by any other service in the world. The
ever-present need for the practice of industry,
zeal, and self-control; for affording in himself an
example to others of public virtue ; the constantlyfelt
 want for, and immediate value of, professional
knowledge ; the enormous effect of personal influence;
 the vastness of the scale on which he is
working ; the very impossibility of doing all that
has to be done,—all these conditions are calculated
in an eminent degree to educate the Indian civilian
to a high standard of energy and intelligence;
while the heavy responsibilities placed on him,
and the extensive power which he wields, form in
themselves a training of incomparable value, by
inducing a confidence, quickness of resource, and
readiness to undertake responsibility, which are
most necessary qualities for a successful adminis.
trator. And, if further inducement were needed,
it was to be found in the large number of
high appointments,—as commissioners, judges of
appeal, diplomatic agents, councillors, and gover.
nors,—to which the distinguished civilians were
certain of succeeding. The Indian civil service
contains an extraordinary number of prizes, and
no blanks.