Western education has been a steady and perhaps on the whole a more solid growth in Southern India.

It has produced a large number of able and distinguished public servants of unimpeachable loyalty to the British _raj_.

The harvest yielded by the ingermination of Western ideas has produced fewer tares.

Educated Hindus of the higher castes have played an important part in social reform, and many of them have been associated with the moderate section of the Indian National Congress.
The enthusiastic reception given to Mr.Bepin Chandra Pal, during his short crusade at Madras three years ago on behalf of _Swaraj_, showed that, especially amongst the younger generation, there is at least an appreciable minority who are ready to listen to the doctrines of advanced Nationalism, and the existence of inflammable materials was revealed in the riots which occurred not long afterwards at Tinnevelly and Tuticorin, and again a year later at Guntur.

But these appear to have been merely sporadic outbreaks which were promptly quelled, and the undisturbed peace which has prevailed since then throughout Southern India, at a time when whole provinces in other parts have been honeycombed with sedition, is one of the most encouraging features of the situation.