wrote this colossus of pundits. Yet before he was believed, or the
higher law was enforced, as it has ever since been even in our
tributary States, mothers had burned with sons, and forty wives,
many of them sisters, at a time, with polygamous husbands. Lepers
and the widows of the devotee class had been legally buried alive.
Magistrates, who were men like Metcalfe, never ceased to prevent
widow-murder on any pretext, wherever they might be placed, in
defiance of their own misguided Government.

Though from 4th December 1829--memorable date, to be classed with
that on which soon after 800,000 slaves were set free--"the Ganges
flowed unblooded to the sea" for the first time, the fight lasted a
little longer. The Calcutta "orthodox" formed a society to restore
their right of murdering their widows, and found English lawyers
ready to help them in an appeal to the Privy Council under an Act of
Parliament of 1797. The Darpan weekly did good service in keeping
the mass of the educated natives right on the subject. The Privy
Council, at which Lord Wellesley and Charles Grant, venerable in
years and character, were present, heard the case for two days, and
on 24th June 1832 dismissed the petition!

Though the greatest, this was only one of the crimes against
humanity and morality which Carey opposed all his life with a
practical reasonableness till he saw the public opinion he had done
so much to create triumph. He knew the people of India, their
religious, social, and economic condition, as no Englishman before
him had done. He stood between them and their foreign Government at
the beginning of our intimate contact with all classes as detailed
administrators and rulers. The outcome of his peculiar experience
is to be found not only in the writings published under his own name