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DISSERTATION

On the best Means of civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion throughout the Eastern World. Originally Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth.*

MISERERE INOPUM SOCIORUM.

Jur. viii. 89.

IN entering upon a discussion like the present, professing to suggest plans for the immediate improvement of sixty or seventy millions of people, and the contingent salvation of perhaps nearly one half of the human species, the mind pauses under the magnitude of the subject; and is struck with awe, as she contemplates the grandeur of the scene spread before her. We view a country, which for

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If the Author could have induced himself to print two Letters, which he received from the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth, recently Governor General of India, and Charles Grant, Esq. at that time Chairman of the East India Company, subsequent to the Adjudication made by the three Academical Judges (Dr. Seale, Dr. Jowett, and Mr. Outram) he feels assured, that his readers would not charge him with presumption in giving to the Public a Dissertation, which they honoured with their most decided preference.

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bationary state, she is surely in her fate, as she was in her faculties and her accomplishments, most enviable.-Alas! I speak as a philosopher: but, when I turn my eyes to my own little prattling daughters, I shudder at the uncertainty of fate; I mingle my tears with those of my friend; I feel-as a man.

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DISSERTATION

On the best Means of civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion throughout the Eastern World. Originally Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth.*

MISERERE INOPUM SOCIORUM.

Jur. viii. 89.

IN entering upon a discussion like the present, professing to suggest plans for the immediate improvement of sixty or seventy millions of people, and the contingent salvation of perhaps nearly one half of the human species, the mind pauses under the magnitude of the subject; and is struck with awe, as she contemplates the grandeur of the scene spread We view a country, which for

before her.

* If the Author could have induced himself to print two Letters, which he received from the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth, recently Governor General of India, and Charles Grant, Esq. at that time Chairman of the East India Company, subsequent to the Adjudication made by the three Academical Judges (Dr. Seale, Dr. Jowett, and Mr. Outram) he feels assured, that his readers would not charge him with presumption in giving to the Public a Dissertation, which they honoured with their most decided preference.

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[Only 50 copies printed separately.]

bationary state, she is surely in her fate, as she was in her faculties and her accomplishments, most enviable.-Alas! I speak—as a philosopher: but, when I turn my eyes to my own little prattling daughters, I shudder at the uncertainty of fate; I mingle my tears with those of my friend; I feel-as a man.

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DISSERTATION

On the best Means of civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion throughout the Eastern World. Originally Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth.*

MISERERE INOPUM SOCIORUM.

Jur. viii. 89.

IN entering upon a discussion like the present, professing to suggest plans for the immediate improvement of sixty or seventy millions of people, and the contingent salvation of perhaps nearly one half of the human species, the mind pauses under the magnitude of the subject; and is struck with awe, as she contemplates the grandeur of the scene spread We view a country, which for

before her.

* If the Author could have induced himself to print two Letters, which he received from the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth, recently Governor General of India, and Charles Grant, Esq. at that time Chairman of the East India Company, subsequent to the Adjudication made by the three Academical Judges (Dr. Seale, Dr. Jowett, and Mr. Outram) he feels assured, that his readers would not charge him with presumption in giving to the Public a Dissertation, which they honoured with their most decided preference.

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[Only 50 copies printed separately.]