Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 7: A Series of Papers Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates, and in a Manner That He Would Not Disapprove, Were He Among Us Now, Gifted With the Knowledge, and Familiar With the Habits and Doings

H. We were rejoiced to hear that you intended to visit Hindustan, and we lose no time in coming to offer you our welcome. You cannot conceive how greatly disappointed we are that no one of the European adventurers who have as yet come out here seems disposed or able to help us to a knowledge of what it is that gives you the wonderful superiority over us, which we cannot but feel and acknowledge.

P. You are not just to my countrymen. You are overlooking one great fact - that besides the adventurers, as you call them, who have quitted England in search of fortune and fame, numerous individuals have accompanied them with no other object than to impart some of their knowledge to you, and to do you good in other respects.

H. We have not overlooked them. Indeed, they have acted towards us in a way to make it impossible for us to forget them. They have insulted us unsparingly, and taught us nothing.

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