This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...made a monopoly of by a few, and invested with power, is an instrument of despotism, as the Histories of Chaldea. India, Persia, Egypt, and the Middle Ages show, and we say with Mr. Hodgson in his letters, that 'making knowledge an official monopoly, in the hands of a small number of people, is not identifying the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...made a monopoly of by a few, and invested with power, is an instrument of despotism, as the Histories of Chaldea. India, Persia, Egypt, and the Middle Ages show, and we say with Mr. Hodgson in his letters, that 'making knowledge an official monopoly, in the hands of a small number of people, is not identifying the security of our dominion with the happiness of the mass of the subjects'. Do not the waters of knowledge, restrained in a limited space, stagnate, whereas when diffused like the ocean, they become the purifiers of the world? In 1848 the Government of the N. W. Provinces very properly expressed their fears 'that the village and district officers will be so far ahead of the mass of the people, as the more to expose the latter to injury from dishonesty and intrigues.' In Ireland on the other hand, We have had for centuries intelligent but tyrannical landlord, who ruled, with a rod of iron, the tenantry they abandoned to ignorance. The Lords' Committee's Second Report on Indian Territories, 1853. pp. 406-407. " Young Bengal, equally with the proud Brahman, despises 'the vulgar tongue, reminding us of the English squires in Locke's days, who could not write correct English, --though they could 'sport Latin verses.' And this is justified on the plea that there is so little in Bengali to read. Well, supposing it to be so--is not this, on the principle that 'it is more blessed to give than to receive a reason why the language should be enriched by those who have got the wealth of another tongue? Did Dante and Chaucer despise their own tongues because they were poor?--No! that was just the stimulus to prompt them to raise them. "Of course, those natives who wish their sons to get employment in offices, where a knowledge of English is requisite, wo...
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