...competitive examinations for staffing the Indian Civil Service in 1853 by assuring the House of Commons that ' the intellectual test which is about to be established will be found in practice to be the best moral test that can be devised'. In this spirit the Civil Service Commissioners were appointed...

...superiority in literature and science generally indicates the existence of some qualities which are securities against vice — industry, selfdenial,...taste for pleasures not sensual, a laudable desire of honorable distinction, a still more laudable desire to obtain the approbation of friends and relations."...