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Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society and without sympathy with the natives.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgYoung men (boys almost) govern there, without society and without sympathy with the natives.
Burke criticizes the young English rulers in India for their lack of empathy towards natives.
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