and education. If there ever existed a period, therefore, in which
a European could oppress a native of India with impunity, that time
is passed away--we trust for ever. That a permission of this nature
might tend to sever India from Britain after the example of America
is of all things the most improbable...

"Long before the number of British landholders in India shall have
become considerable, Penang and the Eastern Isles, Ceylon, the Cape,
and even the Isles of New South Wales, may in European population
far exceed them in number; and unitedly, if not singly, render the
most distant step of this nature as impracticable, as it would be
ruinous, to the welfare and happiness of India...

"British-born landholders would naturally maintain all their
national attachments, for what Briton can lose them? and derive
their happiness from corresponding with the wise and good at home.
If sufficiently wealthy, they would no doubt occasionally visit
Britain, where indeed it might be expected that some of them would
reside for years together, as do the owners of estates in the West
Indies. While Britain shall remain what she now is, it will be
impossible for those who have once felt the force of British
attachments, ever to forego them. Those feelings would animate
their minds, occupy their conversation, and regulate the education
and studies of their children, who would be in general sent home
that they might there imbibe all those ideas of a moral and
intellectual nature for which our beloved country is so eminent.
Thus a new intercourse would be established between Britain and the
proprietors of land in India, highly to the advantage of both
countries. While they derived their highest happiness from the
religion, the literature, the philanthropy and public spirit of