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admired and often cited for having resolved that great problem of how to govern, at a distance of 4000 leagues, with some hundreds of civil functionaries and some thousands of soldiers, her immense possessions in India. If there is much that is wonderful, much that is bold and daring, much political genius in the idea, it must be admitted that the honour of inaugurating it belonged to Dupleix, and that England, which is reaping the profit and the glory, has had but to follow the path which the Genius of France opened out to her.'
