procure good men, he
would prefer to go to Germany. This was the practice in America where
they were annexing all the great intellects of Europe. He would like to
see India entering the world movement in the advance and march of
knowledge. It was of the highest importance that there should be an
intellectual atmosphere in India. It would be of advantage if there were
many Indians in the Educational Service. For they came more in contact
with the people, and influenced their intellectual activity. Besides, on
retirement they would live in India, and their ripe experience would be
at their countrymen's service."[31]

To Mr. Gokhale, he said that he "knew of three instances in which the
Colonies had secured distinguished men on salaries which were lower than
those given to officers of the Indian Educational Service. One was at
Toronto, another was in New Zealand and the third at Yale University.
The salaries on the two latter cases were L600 and L500 a year. The same
held good as regards Japan. The facts there had been stated in a
Government of India publication as follows: 'Subsequent to 1895 there
were 67 professors recruited in Europe and America. Of these 20 came
from Germany, 16 from England and 12 from the United States. The average
pay was L384. In the highest Imperial University the average pay is
L684. As soon as Japanese could be found to do the work, even tolerably
well, the foreigner was dropped.' When he first started work in India,
he found that there was no physical laboratory, or any grant made for a
practical experimental course. He had to construct instruments with the
help of local mechanics, whom he had to train. All this took him ten
years. He then undertook original investigation at his own expense. The
Royal Society became specially interested in his work and desired to
give him parliamentary grant for its continuation. It was after this
that the Government of Bengal came forward and offered him facilities
for research. In the Educational Service he would take men of
achievement from any where; but men of promise he would take from his
own country."[32]

To Sir Theodore Morison, he said: "There should be one scale of pay for
all persons in the higher Educational Department. The rate of salary,
Rs. 200 rising to Rs. 1,500 per month, was suitable subject to the
proviso that a man of great distinction, instead of beginning at the
lowest rate of pay, should start some where in the middle of the list,