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WEALTH OF.EMPIRE, AND HOW IT SHOULD :BE· USED 379.
severer employments, among which educational im-
provement comes first, and the additional labour ne-
cessary to find the means for that improvement. The
next generation, it may be hoped, will be more laborious,
more energetic, more studious, and less athletic than
the present, though neglecting in no way physical
exercise and amusement so far as expedient for health
under the conditions of Jife of a highly civilized com-
munity. It must riot be said, however, that what has
been sug~ested is beyond the means of the community.
We are rIch enough for anything that is really required,
whether for defence or for the ends of education, and
if there is any lack it can be made good by a slightly
greater effort if we only make up our minds to put
it forth.
The case of India and of other subject races under the
British Empire requires special consideration, owing to
the very poverty of the people who have to be instructed
and develo.(led. There are obvious objections to grants
from imperial funds on an extensive scale, even if such
grants were easily practicable. But some grants ought
not to be ~rudged by way of a beginning, as an increase
of industrIal force among these subject races is essenti~1
to the due development of the British Empire itself.
We may trust also, as in our own case at home, to the
recuperativeness of the expenditure. Increasing in-
dustrial power and an increase of means for their further
education will accrue to these subject races at once, so
that their finances can be organised on a stronger basis.
But education is the watchword, and should be the first
thought in aU our minds.
Having thus fulfilled my promise to your President
to initiate a discussion on the objects of the expenditure
of national income, may I express the hope, that some
attention will be given at future meetings of the Asso-
ciation to the investigation from time to time of the
facts as to actual expenditure and tht! proportions of
the total amount appropriated to each object-to the
continuation, in short, of the investigations of the Com-