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University of Calcutta - Convocation Addresses 1858-1879

1914

So long as you consider the provisions of that law or the variations of them according to its different Schools with reference to their adaptation to the wants of the community or to the degree in which they are likely to contribute to the permanence of state or the continuance of families to national wealth. [...] And herein we may humbly recognise a further proof of the Divine Wisdom which determined that with the admission of the Gentiles into the Christian Church the obligtions of the Mosaic law should cease.* For the province of religion is to define and to enforce the duties and the relations of man to God and must needs be of a permanent and * In order to prevent a misapprehension which I have be [...] 23 which the natives of this country take in the cause of education : and third of the practical usefulness of the test which the University affords of the character of the education prevaiing in this country in the affiliated institutions and of the attainments of the students in the different branches of that education. [...] Whether therefore we look to the absolute number of the successful candidates ; to the relative numbers of the successfur or usuccessful ones —rejecting from the latter those whom the accidental circumstance alluded to contributed to the list ;—or to the increase in the numbers of both I think the result is on the whole satisfactory. [...] For the present minister of the Crown is that president of the Board of Control who sent out the noble Despatch of 1851 ; which may indeed be fairly called the Great Charter of Education in this country :—and he has since uniformly to the great advantage I think not merely of the University but of education through the length and breadth of the land maintained those sound principles which he v
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Pages
408
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147552
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The 11th December 1858
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