The Report goes on to say that responsible government must
be conferred on India, but not because educated Indians ask for it. " Our reason is the faith that is in us "
" We believe %profoundly that the time has now come when the sheltered existence which we ,have given to India cannot l)e. -pro, longed without datilage to her-national life-; that we have a licher gift for her people than any that we have yet bestowed on. them ; that nationhood within the Empire represents something better than anything India has hitherto attained ; that the placid, pathetic contentment of the masses is not the soil on which such nationhood will grow, And that in deliberately disturling it ,we.are :working ior her. highest good."
The educated Indians are warned that " fiery agitation " or appeals to -race-hatred will only assist the small Anarchist party and jeopardize the new experiment. The proposals of the Indian National -Congress and the Moslem League are condemned as repro- ducing the worst features of the scheme of Lord Morley and Lord Minto, in conferring negative power without responsibility.
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