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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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who thinks of those men in the stirring days of the Mutiny,
who showed to what extent they really believed in the native
soldiers under them, by going amongst them while other
regiments all round were in a state of mutiny, telling those
who maligned their men that they would not believe a word
that was said against them, and then going down to their men's
lines, and, by their very display of trust and confidence, keeping
their men in subordination. Death overtook these officers only
too frequently. But that the principle on which they acted
was a true one is shown by the multitude of cases in which it
was successful, and by the fact that, in spite of experiences where
officers have suffered for their confidence, we still find it
successful, and at Chitral, in 1895, we have had, perhaps, the
most remarkable instance on record of its inherent truth and
soundness.
This, then, is the chief power by which we hold India, this
power of sympathy, this deep-rooted tendency in us to watch
over the interests of those whom we control. It is by using
this to supplement mere physical courage that we are able
to control the millions of India. We do still require physical
force in addition, but the power of sympathy must always be
the paramount influence; no weak sentimentality, but sym-
pathy and moral courage, such as "our simple great ones gone"
have practically shown in days gone by. It is because we
have this as our ideal, and because in the history of India
we have selected for dealing directly with the natives, not
merely clever men any more than physically strong men, but
good men, such as the Lawrences, Nicholson, and Edwardes
with unflinching moral purpose and capacity for sympathy,
that we have gained the position we hold.
It is a well-recognized fact, too, amongst those Englishmen
who have had dealings with Asiatics, that if once the European
give up his higher moral standard, and descends to intriguing
with Asiatics, and engaging with them in cunning intellectual
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