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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and Education |
 | | I feel that, for the good of India itself, the admission of natives to high office must be effected by slow degrees. |
 | | But that, when the fulness of time is come, when the interest of India requires the change, we ought to refuse to make that change lest we should endanger our own power, this is a doctrine of which I cannot think without indignation. |
 | | That would, indeed, be a doting wisdom, which, in order that India might remain a dependency, would make it an useless and costly dependency, which would keep a hundred millions of men from being our customers in order that they might continue to be our slaves. |
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