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The Calcutta Review December 1860

1860

287 of antecedents :themselves constant that the stability of the phenomena s the regularitrof the recurrence of the eyent is the effect of the fixity of the.causes.which produce them a and hence the first belief in the existence of what we call natural laws. [...] to our present knowledge) of the chemical and physiological chafacter of food for which however interesting and important 'we must refer to the volume itself ; he shows that where the excess of the food produced over the requirments of those who produce it is greatest there the earliest accumulatfOn of „wealth takes place : the inhabitants of _such countries as the valley of the Ganges and t [...] The systematic religion of the coutry might probably would retain the names or even some of the forms of ancient creeds; but as a greater amount of knoledge came to be assimilated by the people (instead of as is now the fate of knowledge heaped in the heads of a few of them) though the names and the forms of their creeds might exist the substances -would most certainly change and the [...] Thoroughly convinced as we are that the object of the ruling men in British India as stated by Sir F. liatfidayris to govern for the good of the country we hold that the relatiOn in which they stand to the deVelopment of its political lifelapreg-i nant with the gravest dangers to that life: the more honest'the efort at protection the more baneful the result: the more energetic the action t [...] We are far from venturing to condemn as a whole the plan acted on by the government in the matter of education : we acknowledge the weight of the many difficulties in the way of any conceivable plan : we believe in the sincerity and in the ability of those who originated and of those who worked the existing one : nor have we any plan to propose which we think superior-to it but at the same time
history
Pages
243
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
Art I.—Buckle’s Civilization in England
281-323 unknown view
Art—II. Administration Report of British India. 1859-60
324-349 unknown view
Art III.—The Madras Constabulary
350-370 unknown view
Art IV.—The Suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity
371-395 unknown view
Art V.—The Calcutta University
396-426 unknown view
Art VI.—The Government of India
427-444 unknown view
Art VII.—The Province of Pegu
445-463 unknown view
Art VIII.—Kattyawar and the Waghers
464-495 unknown view
Art IX.—Moral Influence in the Army
496-509 unknown view
Art X.—The Sonthal Pergunnahs
510-519 unknown view

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