text:  Lord Auckland might err as heavily we believe him to have done in his estimate of Affghanistan and the Affghan condition: he had untrue notions of what the Affghans needed and what it was that they could bear: but his critics Indian and domestic were not in error by default merely of philosophic views as to the state of society in Affghanistan; they erred by want of familiarity with the most prominent usages of eastern economy