This error, therefore, for our sake, for your sake, for the sake of the Indian public, and for the sake of all those who shall hereafter go in any station to India, I think it necessary to disprove in every point.
Burke insists on the necessity of disproving a significant error for the benefit of various stakeholders, including the Indian public.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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