This I believe to be the only way in which we can raise up a good vernacular literature in this country." These hopeful anticipations have been more than fulfilled.

Twice twenty years have brought into existence, not hundreds or thousands, but hundreds of thousands, of natives who can appreciate European knowledge when laid before them in the English language, and can reproduce it in their own.

Taking one year with another, upwards of a thousand works of literature and science are published annually in Bengal alone, and at least four times that number throughout the entire continent.

Our colleges have more than six thousand students on their books, and two hundred thousand boys are receiving a liberal education in schools of the higher order.

For the improvement of the mass of the people, nearly seven thousand young men are in training as Certificated Masters.