"I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is indeed fully admitted by those members of the committee who support the oriental plan of education. [...] It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say, that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Minute on Indian Education (2 February 1835) in the Grat Indian Education debate, Lynn Zastoupil and Martin Moir, London: Curzon, 1999 p. 165
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