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selves. We should therefore be guilty of a gross derelic-
tion of duty to ourselves and afford our rulers just
grounds of complaint at our apathy, did we omit on
occasions of importance like the present, to supply them
with such accurate information as might enable them to
devise and adopt measures calculas;d to be beneficial
to the country, and thus second by our local knowledge
and experience their declared benevolent intentions for
its improvement.
The establishment of a new Sanscrit School in Calcutta
evinces the laudable desire of Government to improve
the natives of India by education,—a blessing for which
they must ever be grateful, and every well-wisher of the
human race must be desirous that the efforts made to
promote it, should be guided by the most enlightened
principles, so that the stream of intelligence may flow in
the most useful channels.
When this seminary of learning was proposed, we
understood that the Government in England had ordered
a considerable sum of money to be annually devoted to
the instruction of its Indian subjects. We were filled
with sanguine hopes that this sum would be laid out in
employing European gentlemen of talent and education
to instruct the natives of India in Mathematics, Natural
Philosophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, and other useful
sciences, which the natives of Europe have carried to a
degree of perfection that has raised them above the
inhabitants of other parts of the world.
While we looked forward with pleasing hope to the
dawn of knowledge, thus promised to the rising genera-
tion, our hearts were filled with mingled feelings of
delight and gratitude, we already offered up thanks to
tion of duty to ourselves and afford our rulers just
grounds of complaint at our apathy, did we omit on
occasions of importance like the present, to supply them
with such accurate information as might enable them to
devise and adopt measures calculas;d to be beneficial
to the country, and thus second by our local knowledge
and experience their declared benevolent intentions for
its improvement.
The establishment of a new Sanscrit School in Calcutta
evinces the laudable desire of Government to improve
the natives of India by education,—a blessing for which
they must ever be grateful, and every well-wisher of the
human race must be desirous that the efforts made to
promote it, should be guided by the most enlightened
principles, so that the stream of intelligence may flow in
the most useful channels.
When this seminary of learning was proposed, we
understood that the Government in England had ordered
a considerable sum of money to be annually devoted to
the instruction of its Indian subjects. We were filled
with sanguine hopes that this sum would be laid out in
employing European gentlemen of talent and education
to instruct the natives of India in Mathematics, Natural
Philosophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, and other useful
sciences, which the natives of Europe have carried to a
degree of perfection that has raised them above the
inhabitants of other parts of the world.
While we looked forward with pleasing hope to the
dawn of knowledge, thus promised to the rising genera-
tion, our hearts were filled with mingled feelings of
delight and gratitude, we already offered up thanks to