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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER VI
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We have got rid of the punishment of death, except in the case of aggravated treason and wilful murder.

We shall also get rid indirectly of everything that can properly be called slavery in India.

There will remain civil claims on particular people for particular services, which claims may be enforced by civil action; but no person will be entitled, on the plea of being the master of another, to do anything to that other which it would be an offence to do to a free-man.
Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully.

We find it difficult,--indeed, in some places impossible,--to provide instruction for all who want it.

At the single town of Hoogly fourteen hundred boys are learning English.


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