Sowing his seed

Props to Richard Brookhiser, via His Virtualness via Albion's Seedlings:

Bangalore has educated, relatively low-wage employees; someone in Bangalore probably wrote the program that makes the system run; and Bangalore, thanks to India’s earlier access to the English language, has the jump on tech centers in other developing nations. So Google fortuitously reaps what Cornwallis and Wellesley sowed—and lays in the seed for later harvests.

Nice. And it echoes the earlier line, "Britain’s legacy to independent India was mixed, for it included both parliamentary democracy and socialism . . . But time has winnowed the wheat from the chaff, for democracy remains, despite the hiatus of Indira Ghandi’s emergency rule, while socialism has been consigned to the dunghill."

Now that's metaphor.