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Research Magnificent was emerging. It was an alarmingly vast
proposal, but he could see no alternative but submission, a
plebeian's submission to the currents of life about him.
Little pictures began to flit before his imagination of the way in
which he might build up this tremendous inquiry. He would begin by
hunting up people, everybody who seemed to have ideas and promise
ideas he would get at. He would travel far--and exhaustively. He
would, so soon as the ideas seemed to indicate it, hunt out facts.
He would learn how the world was governed. He would learn how it
did its thinking. He would live sparingly. ("Not TOO sparingly,"
something interpolated.) He would work ten or twelve hours a day.
Such a course of investigation must pass almost of its own accord
into action and realization. He need not trouble now how it would
bring him into politics. Inevitably somewhere it would bring him
into politics. And he would travel. Almost at once he would
travel. It is the manifest duty of every young aristocrat to
travel. Here he was, ruling India.


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