"The Afghan settlement is a very good settlement as far as it goes, but it is not immaculate--_it is not complete_. To yield us its full measure of defence, the Treaty must be supplemented by all legitimate precautions and supports. _Persia must be detached from Russia coûte que coûte._ Russia herself must not be left in any uncertainty as to our intentions. She must be made to understand ... _that she will not be permitted unopposed to establish herself in strength ... even at Abiverd_, nor to commence intrigues against the British power in India. She might indeed be warned that, if necessary, we were prepared in self-defence to support the Turcomans--with whom she has no legitimate quarrel--with arms or money, or even to turn the tables on her by encouraging the efforts of the Uzbegs to recover their liberty.... _It would be almost fatuity at such a moment to withdraw our garrison from Candahar...._ Yacub Khan must be made to see that it is as much for his interest as our own to hold an efficient body of troops in such a position that, on the approach of danger ... _they might, with military alacrity, occupy Herat as an auxiliary garrison_." And what is implied in detaching Persia from Russia he explains in another part of his Essay. "If Russia, as there is strong reason to believe, is now pushing on to Merv or Sarakhs ... with the ultimate hope of occupying Herat, then it might very possibly be a sound policy to extend to Persia the provisions of the Asia Minor Protectorate, or even to support her actively in vindicating her rights upon the frontier of Khorassán." From all which it would appear that our "Scientific Frontier" is simply good for nothing until it has been supplemented by an offensive and defensive alliance with the barbarian enemies of Russia all over the world. In order to ensure the safety of India, we must protect not only our own "Scientific Frontier," but we must guarantee the Sultan all his Asiatic possessions; we must be ready at any moment to fight for the "integrity and independence" of Persia; we must be prepared to march our troops to Herat, and to show a front against the Russians on the Oxus; we must provide the Tekeh-Turcomans with arms and money, and assist the Uzbegs in their attempts to recover their liberty. Such are the "legitimate precautions and supports" which are requisite to render the new frontier immaculate and complete. But if with a "Scientific Frontier" we remain liable to such tremendous demands as these, it passes imagination to conjecture in what respect we could have been worse off when our frontier was "haphazard." The Circumstances of the Peace.