The Greater Number Of The Sons Of Respectable
Natives Are Now Receiving Their Education At The Elphinstone College,
And These Young People Would Understand And Appreciate The Advantages
Of A Literary And Scientific Institution, For The Discussion And
Illustration Of Subjects Intimately Connected With The End And Aim
Of Their Studies.
In the course of a few years, or even less, many
of these young men would be qualified to
Take a leading part in the
establishment, and perhaps there would be no greater incentive to the
continuation of studies now frequently abandoned too early, for the
sake of some money-getting pursuit, than the hope that the scientific
acquirements attained at college might be turned to useful account.
A small salary would allure many natives, who, in consequence of the
necessity which they are under of gaining their own bread, are
obliged to engage in some, perhaps not very lucrative, trade, and
who, engrossed in the gathering together o petty gains, lose all the
advantages they might otherwise have derived from a liberal education.
The difficulties which in other parts of our Asiatic territories
stand in the way of the participation of natives in the studies and
amusements of Anglo-Indian residents, in consequence of the difference
of language, are not felt in Bombay.
All the superior classes of natives speak excellent English, the
larger portion expressing themselves with great fluency, and even
elegance. English is spoken in every shop frequented by Europeans, and
there are generally one or two servants in every family who can make
themselves understood in it.
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