Third Report On the State of Education in Bengal;+: Including Some Account of the State of ...
Third Report On the State of Education in Bengal;+: Including Some Account of the State of ...
William Adam
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Third: The teachers and students of Sanscrit schools constitute the cultivated intellect of the Hindu people and they command that respect and exert that influence which cultivated intellect always enjoys, and which in the present instance they peculiarly enjoy from the ignorance that surrounds them, the general purity of their personal characten the hereditary sacredness of the class to which most of them belong, the sacredness of the learning that distinguishes them, and the sacred- ness of t...he functions they discharge as spiritual guides and family priests. The only drawback on the influence they possess is the general, not universal, poverty of their condition increased by the frequent resumption of former endowments. They are, notwithstanding this, a highly venerated and influential portion of native society, and although as a body their interests may be opposed to the spread of knowledge, yet [ 61 ] their impoverished circumstaDces would make them ready instruments to carry into effect any plan that should not assail their religious faith or require from them a sacrifice of principle and character.
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