We should reflect that steady work is its own reward.

We must not imagine that the Idea is not making progress because our particular journal cannot be circulated, or because those workers whom we know personally have been lost.

Again, we must not fancy that if heroic exploits of political assassination do not occur every week the movement will die out.
It is not only in regard to the introduction of poisonous literature or of weapons into India that the activity of these organizations deserves to be closely and continuously watched.

One of their main objects, as the _Bande Mataram_ points out, is to gain over young Indians who go abroad, especially those who go abroad for purposes of study.

The India Office has recognized the necessity of establishing some organization in London to keep in touch with them and to rescue them from unwholesome influences, political and other.