Excerpt from Eight Lectures on India HE component parts of the British Empire are so remote and so different from one another, that it is evident the Empire can Only be held together by sympathy and' understanding, based on widely diffused knowledge of its geography, history, resources, Climates, and races. It is obvious that if this know ledge is to be effective it must be imparted to the coming generation. In other words it must be taught' in the Schools of the Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.