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8 R বিবিধ প্ৰবন্ধ । ed by the most enlightened principles so that the stream of in telligence 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 India subjects. We were filled with sanguine hopes that this sum would be laid out in employing European gentlemen of talents and education to instruct the aatives of India in Ma thematics, 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 generation, our hears were filled with mingled feelings of delight and gratitude; we already offered up thanks to Providence for inspiring the most generous and enlightened nations of the West with the glorious ambition of planting in Asia the arts and sciences of Modern Europe. r 'We find.'that the Goverment:are establishing á Sanskrit school under Hindu Pundits to impart such knowledge as is already current in India. . . This seminary (similar in character to those which existed in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon) eat only be expected to load the minds, of youth with grammatical nicetios and metaphysical-distinctions of little or no practical use to the possessors or td society. The pupils will thre acquire what was known two thausand years ago with the Rddition of vain and empty subtleties, since then produced by