Concerning work still to be done Lord Curzon said: "We still have to carry through the reform of the Polico—the most vital and imperative of domestic reforms, touching the very core of the life of the Indian people. There has been no undue delay, and we are only i inal orders of the Secretary to trans-lat into fact, so far as our resources permit, the findings of the Irriga Committee. We have to start the Board, and to speed our Educational Reforms on their way."
Of British sympathy with India he said: "Gentlemen, during the time I ha been in England I have found many signs among my own countrymen of a warm and steadily growing interest in India. There is not, I believe, a single thoughtful Briton who looks at the connection between the two countries from a selfish or sordid or purely materialistic point of view. There are few, if any, among them, who do not realise the responsibility, and desire that it should be discharged faithfully. I pray you—I pray the native community in India—to believe in the good faith, in the high honour, and in the upright purposes of my countrymen. In England, there are no two parties that the government of this Dependency should be conducted with insight and sympathy, and that our guiding stars should be mercy and justice. Some, perhaps, would advance more quickly, others more slowly—but all would advance as we are advancing. Is it an impossible aspiration to ask, that, in India, there should be no two parties about England
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