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... becomes extended to the mere ministers of religion , the priests . The clergy acquire unwonted authority , which they employ , not unnaturally , in endea- vouring to widen still more the circle of their influence . Knowledge is power ...
... becomes extended to the mere ministers of religion , the priests . The clergy acquire unwonted authority , which they employ , not unnaturally , in endea- vouring to widen still more the circle of their influence . Knowledge is power ...
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... become the only repositories of learning and the sole teachers of youth , not merely of necessity , as when secular learning is closely blended with religious , but out of carelessness , and as a matter of course , because they have ...
... become the only repositories of learning and the sole teachers of youth , not merely of necessity , as when secular learning is closely blended with religious , but out of carelessness , and as a matter of course , because they have ...
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... becoming constantly liable to suffer impurity from different causes ; all of which toge- ther with the means of purification are detailed at consider- able length in the code . As a whole , the religion inculcated by the Institutes is ...
... becoming constantly liable to suffer impurity from different causes ; all of which toge- ther with the means of purification are detailed at consider- able length in the code . As a whole , the religion inculcated by the Institutes is ...
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... become fruitless ; " " when female relatives are made miserable , the family very soon wholly perishes ; " but " when a husband is contented with his wife , and she with her husband , in that house will fortune assuredly be permanent ...
... become fruitless ; " " when female relatives are made miserable , the family very soon wholly perishes ; " but " when a husband is contented with his wife , and she with her husband , in that house will fortune assuredly be permanent ...
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... become actually wearisome in their excessive detail , and to attain to a complete knowledge of which would be the labour of a life time , to have been maintained without any regular form of ecclesiastical government or subordination ...
... become actually wearisome in their excessive detail , and to attain to a complete knowledge of which would be the labour of a life time , to have been maintained without any regular form of ecclesiastical government or subordination ...
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Page 59 - His Lordship in council directs, that all the funds which these reforms will leave at the disposal of the committee be henceforth employed in imparting to the native population a knowledge of English literature and science, through the medium of the English language...
Page 66 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Page 58 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 59 - But his Lordship in council decidedly objects to the practice which has hitherto prevailed, of supporting the students during the period of their education. He conceives that the only effect of such a system can be, to give artificial encouragement to branches of learning which, in the natural course of things, would be superseded by more useful studies ; and he directs that no stipend shall be given to any student...
Page 47 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the id. , pp. 19-21. inhabitants of the British territories in India.
Page 38 - Europe, differ for the worse; and whether, when we can patronize sound philosophy and true history, we shall countenance, at the public expense, medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long, and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Page 32 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 58 - To sum up what I have said. I think it clear that we are not fettered by the Act of Parliament of 1813, that we are not fettered by any pledge expressed or implied, that we are free to employ our funds as we choose, that we ought to employ them in teaching what is best worth knowing, that English is better worth knowing than Sanscrit or Arabic, that the natives are desirous to be taught English, and are not desirous to be taught Sanscrit or Arabic, that neither as the languages of law nor as the...
Page 47 - Mahomedan literature, you bound yourselves to teach a great deal of what was frivolous, not a little of what was purely mischievous, and a small remainder indeed in which utility was in any way concerned.
Page 58 - But it is not the intention of His Lordship in Council to abolish any college or school of native learning, while the native population shall appear to be inclined to avail themselves of the advantages which it affords, and His Lordship in Council directs that all the existing professors and students at all the institutions under the superintendence of the Committee shall continue to receive their stipends.