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my heart, and in the intensity of my Christian feeling, say God-speed to 

 it. But I am afraid the scheme will fail, unless it were tested by and 

 introduced in conformity with the consensus of the nation. And that 

 last spark of liberty which this country has, will never yield either to 

 the influence or to the tide of conquest, save and except under a 

 law peculiar to itself." 



Babu Kajendralala Mitra said : "I regret much the necessity that 

 has placed me in opposition to my learned and respected friend, the 

 honorable mover of the resolution ; but I cannot conscientiously give 

 my support to the proposition, that the scientific terminology of 

 England should be introduced bodily into vernacular books. Such a 

 measure, in my humble opinion, cannot but prove highly injurious to 

 the spread of European science in this country. The subject is not a 

 new one. It has engaged the attention of Anglo-Indian educationists 

 off and on for the last forty years, and many and very contradictory 

 have been the opinions put forth about it. Dr. Tytler, who had 

 charge of a vernacular medical school some time between 1820 and 

 1825, maintained that European scientific terms could not be translated 

 into the vernacular. He accordingly published a series of plates and 

 text-books on anatomy with all the Latin names, such as musculi 

 adductores digiti minimi, musculi crico-arytcenoides laterales, all 

 beautifully transliterated, and in the process, I may add, completely 

 murdered, in Persian characters. This was rebutted by Mr. Felix Carey, 

 who, in a portly volume on anatomy, showed that all the Latin terms 

 could be with perfect ease rendered into Bengali. The late Pundit 

 Madhusudan Gupta at the same time translated Hooper's Vade Mecum, . 

 in which all the European terms were represented by Sanskrit equi- 

 valents. Certain Missionary gentlemen were also, about the same 

 time, engaged in a discussion as to whether the technical terms of 

 the Bible should be transliterated or translated in the Bengali, and 

 a Committee, consisting of Dr. Wilson, Dr. Mill, the Rev. Mr. Morton 

 and some others, reported in favour of translation, and laid down some 

 definite and very judicious rules on the subject. Next came Mr. Boutros 

 of the Delhi College. He would listen to no translation, and obtained 

 the permission of the then General Committee of Public Instruction 

 to introduce English forms in a series of Urdu school books which 

 he compiled for his college ; but they all fell still-born from the press, 



