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continuance of the pension with arrears, and the payment has 

 continued to the present time. 



Professor Wilson remarks in his Report — u Although the value of 

 the learning acquired at Nuddea may not he very highly estimated 

 by Europeans, yet it is in great repute with the natives, and its en- 

 couragement even by the trifling sum awarded is a gracious and popu- 

 lar measure :" of course, with the spread of English education in 

 Lower Bengal the native estimate of the value of " infinitesimal logic" 

 and the toles which teach it, is gradually altering, and I have heard 

 many of the most able English scholars among the natives speak 

 somewhat strongly against the system. As it is at present conducted, 

 there can be no doubt that the Nyaya toles of Nuddea teach very little 

 that is of any worth, either for practical life or even the history of the 

 human mind ; but this partly arises, not from the barren nature of 

 Hindu logic, but the barrenness of the special part of it, to which 

 they exclusively confine their attention. It is, as if in Oxford we 

 neglected the Organon of Aristotle, and exclusively studied "the 

 Farrago of the Parva Logicalia." # But if the really great writers on 

 Hindu logic were systematically taught in the toles of Nuddea, I 

 should hardly be inclined to condemn as worthless all that the 

 students would learn there. As it is, they learn only a part even of 

 Nyaya, and I found that very few could read any portion of the 

 Kusumanjali, or knew much beyond the endless intricacies of Vydpti 

 and pakshatd. Here of course they were completely at home, — it 

 was a marvel to see how completely. 



I am hardly prepared to suggest a definite plan for the improvement 

 of the Nuddea toles, because I think that this would require a practi- 

 cal acquaintance with Mofussil education, which I do not possess. 

 But there are two suggestions which I would venture to make : — 



1. It would be a great improvement, if some superintendence 

 could be exercised over the Sanskrit studies, and if rewards could be 

 offered for thorough proficiency in the studies of the place. At present 

 the certain effects of neglect and the absence of all encouragement are 

 plainly seen in the toles, — they do not teach well what they profess to 

 teach, every thing is chilled by the want of ^.^T^ from those 

 in authority. Now regular examinations (with many rewards) in 

 * Mansel's Aldrich. Pref. 



