Service As Commissioner
In 1875, the Viceroy of India, Lord Northbrook, selected him as a Commissioner, along with the Maharajas of Sindhia and Jaipur and three British colleagues, to try the Gaekwar of Baroda on a charge of attempting to poison Colonel Robert Phayre, the British Resident.
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“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
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