But we and you--for the English-speakers are all in the same boat, however much the _New York Sun_ may scream over it--we and you have among our best men a higher conception of moral sense and public duty than is to be found in any other people.

Now, these are the two qualities which are needed for directing a weaker race.

You can't help them by abstract thought or by graceful art, but only by that moral sense which will hold the scales of Justice even, and keep itself free from every taint of corruption.
That is how we rule India.

We came there by a kind of natural law, like air rushing into a vacuum.

All over the world, against our direct interests and our deliberate intentions, we are drawn into the same thing.