India, What Can It Teach Us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from India, What Can It Teach Us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge If some of the young Candidates for the Indian Civil Service who listened to my Lectures, quietly made up their minds that 's-uch a'reproach shall be wiped out, if a few of them at least determined to follow in the footsteps of Sir William Jones, and to show to the world that Englishmen who have been able to achieve by pluck, by perseverance, and by real political genius the material conquest of India, do not mean to leave the laurels of its intellectual conquest entirely to other countries, then I shall indeed rejoice, and feel that I have paid back, in however small a degree, the large debt of gratitude which I owe to my adopted country and to some of its greatest statesmen, who have given me the opportunity which I could find nowhere else of realising the dreams of my life, -the publication of the text and commentary of the Rig-veda, the most ancient book of Sanskrit, aye of Aryan litera ture, and now the edition of the translations of the Sacred Books of the East.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.