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quire into the qualities and affinities of every ining thal is in the world, and admire their beauty, and endeavour to discover their uses, and this they regard both as pleasing to God and as honorable to themselves: and hence they lave discovered innumerable arts and wonders, and have gone and examined every town, hill, sea, and island to be found in the world, and have measured the depths of the ocean, the heights of mountains, the distance of the stars, and the rapidity of light, and have invented ships that sail against the wind without sails, and! carviages tha fly along without oxen or horses, and electric wires that convey news in the twinkling of an eye to people a thous sand miles off, and many other arts and contrivances of which those who have not learnt English do not know
even the names.
Moreover, though the population of India from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, amounts to nearly£0 crores (200,000,000), and thongh the white men in luda number only about one lakh(100,000) vet that one lakh of persons, through the grace of the Lord of all words, and by the strength of their intelligence, rule over those twenty crores| Does not this wonderful circumstance clearly prove
that wisdom is strength and that wisdom is victory?
Dear friends! vou must not suppose that I mention these things to irritate you or to put you to shame.[ remind you of these things as your friend in the hope of stirring vou up to seek after true knowledge and to long after wisdom and virtue. The people of India have plenty of natural intelligence, but their natural intelligence is darkened and prevented from manifesting itself by their relicion. Compare for yourselves the activity of mind produced by Christianity and the