That may be the attitude of an Englishman who is in India only as a bird of passage (and all Englishmen are there as birds of passage, for only those whose children belong to the country are permanently bound up with it).

For us who live here, and whose children are to live here, the distant as well as the immediate future is of essential importance.

Now what is the tendency of Government?
Can any one deny that, taken as a whole, it is towards Hindu predominance in the long run?
English observers must not forget that there is throughout India amongst Hindus a strong tendency towards imitating the National movements that have proved successful in European history.

Now, while _vis-a-vis_ the British the Hindu irreconcilables assume the attitude of the Italian patriots towards the hated Austrian, _vis-a-vis_ the Moslems there is a very different European model for them to follow.

Not only Tilak and his school in Poona, but throughout the Punjab and Bengal the constant talk of the Nationalists is that the Moslems must be driven out of India as they were driven out of Spain.
This is no invention of ours.