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\nThe Work Before Us
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\nThe little that we have done is the first faint shadowing forth of our future activities, nothing more. If we are content with
\nwhat we have done, even that little will disappear, the movement will be abortive and the country fall back into its former
\ncondition. It is therefore necessary to give a new impetus to the movement everywhere, and now that Srijut Bipin Chandra is out
\nof prison, the necessary will no doubt be done. The first work is to revive courage in the hearts of the people. The effect of
\nthe recent repression has been not to crush the movement, but to discourage its outward activity. This discouragement must be
\nremoved. We cannot allow the movement to be driven inward and become an affair of secret societies and terrorism as it will
\ninevitably become if the outward expression of it is stopped. The next work is to give a stronger impetus to the boycott, so that
\nthe little that we have gained may become the starting-point for fresh victories; the organisation of boycott is the first work to
\nwhich we should set our hands. The third thing to be done is to spread National Education. A serious effort must be made
\nto take in hand the raising of funds for this branch of national activity, so that the National Council may be in a position both
\nto effect the complete organisation of its scientific, technical and other sides
\nand to extend aid to the increasing number of schools which are springing up all
\nover the country. It is also necessary to bring the existing primary schools
\nunder the Council; for this is a work of great importance, and until it is done,
\nthe foundations of the new educational edifice will not be secure, since it is
\nthe primary schools in which the bulk of the people are educated. If the present
\ninstitutions will not come into the new system, the 
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\ncountry must be covered with a network of new primary schools
\non national lines, such as the one which is now being projected at Uttarpara,\u2014 schools giving a primary literary education along
\nwith such technical instruction as will enable the students to earn a livelihood as small artisans. If this is done, the public will
\nflock into the national institutions and the old primary schools will perish.
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\nSo much is necessary for the completion of the work for which we have already laid a foundation, but the time has come
\nwhen we should start actively on fresh lines. The most important of these is arbitration, which will, if successfully carried out,
\nform the basis of our future self-government. Education will give us the necessary training of mind and character for
\nself-government, arbitration will provide a practical field in which our capacities can be tested. In some parts the work has already
\nbeen begun and with remarkable success, but it is necessary to lay the foundations all over Bengal. The difficulties that lie in its
\nway are not so insuperable as they at first appear; if the lawyer class can be provided with a means of living by the arbitration
\nsystem, their passive opposition, which is the only real obstacle to be dreaded, can be removed. The existing courts will provide
\ncareers for those who wish to earn large fortunes in the legal line, but the host of small practitioners in the mofussil are those who
\nwill be affected by the spread of arbitration and some provision must be made in our arbitration schemes by which their field,
\nif restricted, may not be entirely destroyed. This subject is one which demands detailed treatment and it will be the theme of
\na future article. At present we wish only to emphasize its great importance.
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\nWhen we have laid the foundations of arbitration, our work is not finished; the positive side of it only has been done. There
\nis another side less palpable, but even more important, and it is the destructive or negative side, the removal of old prepossessions, false beliefs, false ideals from the mind of the people. So long as the least little of faith in the bureaucracy remains in the
\nlowest class of our population, the conditions of success are not complete. The bureaucracy is itself doing much to destroy the
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\n\tancient faith in its philanthropy, integrity and high motive which
\nwas the source of its strength, but this is chiefly in the educated class and the landed aristocracy, both of which, whatever the
\noutward professions, fear or self-interest may dictate, are now thoroughly alienated. The only work which remains to be done
\nso far as these classes are concerned, is to generate faith in the nation; for so far as moderatism still prevails, it is not owing to
\nfaith in the bureaucracy but to distrust in the nation. The lower classes have still to be inoculated with the spirit of self-help,
\nseparation from the alien and confidence in their own countrymen. To some extent the work has been done, the seed has been
\nsown; Swadeshi is the seedbed of this spirit of self-reliance, this sense of separateness and, at least among the Hindu community,
\nSwadeshi is deeply rooted in all classes. But this seed has yet to fructify and spring up. The only way in which this can be done
\nis to destroy the barriers between the educated class and the peasantry which English education has created, to restore the old
\nunity of society by mutual service, by love, by self-identification with the mass of our countrymen. The volunteer movement,
\nnow in a rudimentary state, has to be developed and perfected so as to form the bridge of communication between the heart
\nof the people and the brain of the educated community. Our propaganda among the masses must consist less in the teaching
\nof ideas than in teaching by acts, less in intellectual conviction than in the appeal to the heart and to the imagination. No time
\nshould be lost in taking this work in hand, the days are passing by with great swiftness and bringing us nearer and nearer to the
\nfinal struggle when the people and the bureaucracy will stand face to face. On that day the masses will weigh down the scale
\nand decide victory or defeat. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tCampbell-Bannerman Retires
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\n\tThe resignation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman leaves things for India just where they were, but it is of some importance for
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\n\t\t\tEngland, as it is not unlikely that the transference of leadership
\nto a man of Mr. Asquith’s cold, hard and unsympathetic Whiggism may lead to an early disruption of the Liberal majority.
\nFor India, of course, that event would mean little or nothing; a Hamilton to a Fowler and a Morley to a Brodrick
\n\t\t\tsucceeds, and the only difference made by the retirement of the
\n\t\t\tquondam friend, philosopher and guide of Moderatism into the cool
\n\t\t\tshades of Opposition, will be that we are now suffering from
\n\t\t\trepression with sympathy and will then suffer from repression
\n\t\t\twithout sympathy. On the whole we prefer the latter brand; it is
\n\t\t\tmore genuine and invigorating. <\/span><\/p>\n

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