...learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of...

...learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of...

...learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of...

...learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of...

...West ; and he beat down all opposition by his brilliant and impetuous attack upon Orientalism. He said that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and * Indian Musalmans, p. 143. Arabia ; that it was not decent to use the public funds for bribing the...

..."West ; and he beat down all opposition by his brilliant and impetuous attack upon Orientalism. He said that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia ; that it was not decent to use the public funds for bribing the Indian youth to read books full of...

...learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of...

...like Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian ; but there can be no controverting the fact asserted by Macaulay that " a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia." In advocating a language, to be used as the means of instruction he eloquently pleaded for English....

...Although he confessed that he knew nothing of the classical languages of the East, still he1 held " that a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia," and further, " that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written...

...language of commerce in the Eastern seas, as it was in South Africa and Australasia, but further, " a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia."8 The result was inevitable, Lord William Bentinck and 1 " Lord Macaulay's celebrated ' Minute,'...