হিন্দু অথবা প্রেসিডেন্সী কলেজের ইতিবৃত্ত। ১৪৫ what speculative relation, the soul bears to the body, the body to the soul, tho eye to the ear, &c. In order to enable your Lordship to appreciate the utility of encouraging such imaginary learning as above charactorized, I beg your Lordship will be ploased to compare the statė of science and literature in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon with the progress of knowledge made since he γΥιοίο. If it had been intended to keep the British nation in ignorance of real knowledge the Baconian philosophy would not have been allowed to displace the system of the schoolmen which was the best calculated to perpetuate ignorance. In the same manner the Sanskrit system of education would be the best calculated to keep this country in darkness if such had been the policy of the British legislature. But as the improvement of the native population is the object of the Government, it will consequently promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction, embracing Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, with other uséful sciences, which may be accomplished with the sums proposed by employing a few gentlemen of talents and learning educated in Europe, and providing a College furnished with necessary books, instruments, and other apparatus. In representing this subject to your Lordship I conceive myself discharging a solemn duty which I owe to my countrye and also to that enlightened sovereign and legislature which have extended their benevolent care to this distant land, actuated by a desire to improve the inhabitants, and therefore ܬ
