CROSS CURRENTS The political aspects of Indian unrest have compelled me to dwell chiefly upon the evil forces which it has generated.

But contact with the West has acted as a powerful ferment for good as well as for evil upon every class of Indian society that has come more or less directly under its influence.

Were it otherwise we should indeed have to admit the moral bankruptcy of our civilization.

The forces of unrest are made up of many heterogeneous and often conflicting elements, and even in their most mischievous manifestations there are sometimes germs of good which it should be our business to preserve and to develop.

Largely as the classes touched, however superficially, by Western education have of late years been invaded by a spirit of reaction and of revolt against all for which that education stands, they have not yet by any means been wholly conquered by it.