resources fail, preference should decidedly be given to Sanskrit over a foreign tongue. There may be instances in which the reverse will hold good But these instances must form the exception, not the rule In cases in which the stores of Hindi would answer well, exotic words should not be used in writings professedly Hindi With very regard for those that differ from me, I aver that their favourite jargon--by no better name can I call their language--the farrago of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit
and Hindi--serves, at best, only to provoke a Contemptuous smile in men of taste But
some would perhaps kill Hindi They think
it is dismissed from society, and is, therefore, synonymous with rusticity, that it leads to no practical good, hence it must needs be discouraged They should bear in mind that Hindi has retired from the court and general society by the force of circumstances.
The encroachments of Persian and Urdu have proved too much for it. Its case is analo-
gous to that of English immediately after the Norman conquest. The language of the conquerors became the language of law and like-wise, of society, to a very large extent. But
