India and the future . A Palace, Benan s. [To face p. 2+:. Palace and Ghat. Benares. [To face p 243. EDUCATION discontent would have spread just as surely, though weshould probably have known less about it. The peoplewho denounce Macaulay are logically bound to go a stepfurther, and maintain that the railway, the telegraph andthe manufactory ought to have been excluded from India,which should have remained a patch of the Middle Agesin the midst of the modern world—a region where timestood still. I am not aware that any of them has explicitlyadvanced so impossible a theory ; but it seems to be
India and the future . A Palace, Benan s. [To face p. 2+:. Palace and Ghat. Benares. [To face p 243. EDUCATION discontent would have spread just as surely, though weshould probably have known less about it. The peoplewho denounce Macaulay are logically bound to go a stepfurther, and maintain that the railway, the telegraph andthe manufactory ought to have been excluded from India,which should have remained a patch of the Middle Agesin the midst of the modern world—a region where timestood still. I am not aware that any of them has explicitlyadvanced so impossible a theory ; but it seems to be implicitin such a passage as the following from Meredith TownsendsAsia in Europe. Mr. Townsend tells us that he was oneof those who, in the fifties, bestirred themselves to resistMacaulays ideas. They maintained that true instruction would never be gainedby an Oriental people through a Western language, that educationin English would be productive of nothing but a caste, who, like the scholars of the Middle Ages, would be content with their ownsuperior
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