He was the first English statesman fully to understand the moral import of the problem of subject races; and if he did not make impossible the Joseph Sedleys of the future, at least he flung an eternal challenge to their malignant complacency.

He did not ask the abandonment of British dominion in India, though he may have doubted the wisdom of its conquest.

All that he insisted upon was this, that in imperial adventure the conquering race must abide by a moral code.

A lie was a lie whether its victim be black or white.

The European must respect the powers and rights of the Hindu as he would be compelled by law to respect them in his own State.