SEVEN LECTURES ON THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR USE IN INDIA. _Reissued for use in the United Kingdom._ BY H. J. MACKINDER, _Lately Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science: Author of “Britain and the British Seas.”_ With Lantern Illustrations. _ONE SHILLING NET._ PUBLISHED FOR THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE, BY WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, PRINTERS, LONDON WALL. 1909. The Slides to accompany these Lectures are sold on behalf of the Committee by Messrs. Newton & Co., of 3, Fleet Street, London, E.C., from whom the books of lectures can also be obtained. The complete set of 377 Slides, many of them coloured, may be had for £35. 0s. 0d. The Slides to accompany the several Lectures will be sold at the following prices: First Lecture, £6. 0s. 0d.; Second Lecture, £5. 15s. 0d.; Third Lecture, £4. 15s. 0d.; Fourth Lecture, £2. 15s. 0d.; Fifth Lecture, £10. 15s. 0d.; Sixth Lecture, £3. 0s. 0d.; Seventh Lecture, £4. 0s. 0d. Single Slides will not be sold. * * * * * Many of the slides in this series are copyright. _ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL._ THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF MEATH, K.P., Chairman. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, G.C.M.G. SIR PHILIP HUTCHINS, K.C.S.I., late Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. SIR CHARLES LUCAS, K.C.M.G., C.B., of the Colonial Office. SIR CHARLES HOLROYD, Director of the National Gallery. H. F. HEATH, Ph.D., Director of Special Enquiries at the Board of Education. H. J. MACKINDER, M.A., late Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. R. D. ROBERTS, D.Sc., Secretary of the Gilchrist Educational Trust. PROFESSOR MICHAEL E. SADLER, LL.D., Professor of the History and Administration of Education in the University of Manchester. JOHN STRUTHERS, C.B., LL.D., Secretary to the Scotch Education Department. PREFACE. The component parts of the British Empire are so remote and so different from one another, that it is evident that the Empire can only be held together by sympathy and understanding, based on widely diffused knowledge of its geography, history, resources, climates, and races. It is obvious that if this knowledge is to be effective it must be imparted to the coming generation. In other words it must be taught in the Schools of the Empire.