Oriental Experience : a Selection of Essays And Addresses Delivered On Various Occasions
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Therefore fresh departures administratively must 174 ORIENTAL EXPERIENCE. Chap. VIII. from time to time be taken. While primary education is not valued as much as we desire, while disappointment is felt respecting the attitude of the masses in this matter — superior education is eagerly desired by the middle classes. Why is the Government urged to apply its resources to this superior education, why are sacrifices made by parents to secure it, why are donations and subscriptions given in aid of ...it by the wealthy? Because the natives hope thereby to win for themselves a larger share than heretofore in the administration of their own country, and to acquire some of the advantages hitherto enjoyed almost exclusively by Europeans. In justice it must be admitted that this hope is a reasonable one. There is also portended a desire for what may be termed political privileges culminating in something like representative institutions. There is already a vague hankering for such privileges; although in respect to political "representation," the natives have not yet conceived any definite notions, yet their thoughts are tending in that direction, even though they may be unaware of that tendency.
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