vour of their own dunghill civilization."

But the last word of all will come, not from Lord Morley, or "Home
Rule," but from the land and the myriad peoples whose ancient
civilization, Lord Morley, like every preceding Viceroy, has striven
to bury under the dunghill of British supremacy in India, and to
hide the very outlines of the ancient body of the set designs of a
new purpose. The capital of British India is to be the "new Delhi,"
planned in Whitehall, but paid for in India--the apotheosis of dung.
The new India will make short work of "the new Delhi."

"An unplumbed, salt, estranging sea" of moral and spiritual separation
sets between the imperial conception as nourished in Britain and the
growing hope of the great millions of mankind who make up the greatest
realm of her empire.

Ireland _might_ be bought or bribed, at any rate in this generation,
to forfeit her national ideals and barter the aspiration that six
centuries of contact with England have failed to kill; but the
350,000,000 of Indian mankind can never be, or bought, or bribed in
the end.

Even if Ireland forgot the deathless words of Grattan, delivered in
the subordinate Parliament of 1780, those words will find a response
in the hearts of men who never heard of Grattan. For the voice of
the Irish patriot was, in truth, a world voice--a summons to every
audience wherever men gather in quest of freedom. The prophesy Grattan
uttered in the name of Ireland assuredly will be fulfilled, and that
in the life time of many of us, in that greater Ireland England
holds in the eastern seas by the very same tide of raid, conquest and
spoliation that has given her our own land.

Substitute India for Ireland and the Grattan of 1780 becomes the
Indian patriot of to-day.

"I will never be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland
has a link of the British chain clanking in his rags; he may be naked,
he shall not be in irons; and I do see the time is at hand; the spirit
has gone forth, the declaration is planted; and though great men
should apostasize, yet the cause will live; and though the public
speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ
which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of holy
men, will not die with the prophet, but survive him."

Were Ireland to accept the bribe now offered she would indeed justify
the reproach of Wilfred Blunt; but she would become some thing else
than a "weapon of offence in