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portion of my address by calling your attention to one or two points 
arising out of the new enthusiasm gathering around the subject. 
One of the pleasantest results of ‘the discovery is the beneficial 
influence which begins to show itself on the Hindus themselves : 
they have risen in their own esteem since they learned that their 
ancestors were almost teachers of our teachers in Greece and Rome, 
and that they may become themselves the peers of Greeks and 
Romans and Saxons. It is certain, that they have betaken them- 
selves in a new spirit to the study of their own literature. Indeed 
out of their treasures has arisen a revival everywhere of a more 
exact knowledge amongst literary nations. We study our owN 
ENcuisH with more critical eyes and keener relish. It is a notice- 
able fact, that the happy revival (I might almost call it, the 
formation) of a scientific estimate of our own beautiful language 
originated with the philologists of Germany, Denmark, and France, 
who derived their own critical efficiency from the enlarged field of 
view opened to them. And now our own scholars are impregnated 
with the scientitic spirit; so that there is hardly an elementary book 
for our school children, touching even the earliest rudiments of our 
English and French and German and Latin and Greek Grammars, 
Dictionaries, and Lexicons, but is richly Ulustrated and improved 
by the learning which Sanscrit has furnished. Philology, the out- 
come of Sanscrit, has in fact opened out to us our linguistic 
relations, not simply to our own Anglo-Saxon, but to every cognate 
tongue in the great Aryan family, I must say there is the promise 
in the long run. From this spirit of reciprocity and union of great 
results, MORAL AS WELL AS INTELLECTUAL; and I might almost add, 
that if RELIGION does not receive a new sanction from this impulse 
and effort after concord, it at any rate finds a fresher hope of 
ultimate success, and an encouragement which is likely to overbear 
and even supersede its apparent failures in the past. Professor 
Max-Miiller, who is a great Philo-Indian, fairly exults in the pros- 
pect; and at the Orientalist Congress he threw out some valuable 
hints how missionary travel and labour might well be utilised. 
Let missionaries be thoroughly learned in Indian scholarship ; let 
some of the non-resident fellowships of Oxford and Cambridge be 
given to graduates (lay or clerical) who will take up this kind of 
work; their religious qualifications obviously need suffer no 
diminution, nor their zeal be relaxed. The result could hardly be 
other than successful. In more ways than one successful, they 
