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shall be one great Central Council, wherein the
whole of the great Empire shall be represented. For
many long years I have believed that this was coming-,
but I see now that it has unexpectedly come within the
range of practical politics. Therefore my interest in
it is very largely over ! But I hold it up to you as
an ideal to be kept before the eyes of educated India:
that you will have the village Panchayat; that you
will have then the District Council, or the Municipal
body ; that you will have your Provincial bodies ; that
you will have your National body, representing India
as a whole—not an unauthoritative Congress but
a Parliament of India, where her people's will can be
carried out in the future; then, crowning the whole,
with all these Parliaments in all the many States
that own our King-Emperor—whom may God long
preserve—a Council of the wisest of every nation
gathered round him, a Council of the noblest of every
people, a Council marked out by the character, the
honour, the learning of its members ; and India shall
send her sons, as Canada and Australia and New
Zealand and South Africa shall send theirs—the
great Council of the Empire, ruling the whole under
George V as King.
That is what is coming ; but to do that work you
must go abroad, you must learn the ways of other
nations, you must understand the traditions of other
peoples. You will be dealing with international
politics, and how are you going to deal with this, if
whole of the great Empire shall be represented. For
many long years I have believed that this was coming-,
but I see now that it has unexpectedly come within the
range of practical politics. Therefore my interest in
it is very largely over ! But I hold it up to you as
an ideal to be kept before the eyes of educated India:
that you will have the village Panchayat; that you
will have then the District Council, or the Municipal
body ; that you will have your Provincial bodies ; that
you will have your National body, representing India
as a whole—not an unauthoritative Congress but
a Parliament of India, where her people's will can be
carried out in the future; then, crowning the whole,
with all these Parliaments in all the many States
that own our King-Emperor—whom may God long
preserve—a Council of the wisest of every nation
gathered round him, a Council of the noblest of every
people, a Council marked out by the character, the
honour, the learning of its members ; and India shall
send her sons, as Canada and Australia and New
Zealand and South Africa shall send theirs—the
great Council of the Empire, ruling the whole under
George V as King.
That is what is coming ; but to do that work you
must go abroad, you must learn the ways of other
nations, you must understand the traditions of other
peoples. You will be dealing with international
politics, and how are you going to deal with this, if