a perfect distribution of wealth ; in addition, a happy
temper, cheerful in all adversities. Who is there in
the world who would not wish for some, at least, of
these things for himself? And many, struggling with
all the problems of modern life, of pauperism, of
congestion in great cities, with social hatreds and
t h e d e e p a n t a gonisms
of classes,
look in vain, as for
an u n a tta in ab le
thing, for what the
Burmese race as a
whole has attained.
Yet no sooner do we
come upon such a
thing, even though
it comes to us as
a trust — for th e
Empire is nothing
if it is not a Great
Trust^p-than we
begin to find fault
with it, to lavish
our contempt upon
it, and to hold up
as an ideal that
very thing f r om
which the c iv i l ised
world is try-
TH E d a n c e r ing to escape -
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