भारतीय शिक्षा का सर्वनाश ११४ सर चार्ल्स ट्रेवेलियन के पूर्वोक पत्र के विषय में पलिमेण्ट की कमेटी के सदस्थाँ और हैवेलियन में कई ट्रैवेलियन के दिन तक प्रश्नोत्तर होता रहा, जिसमें ट्रलियन और अधिक स्पष्ट ने और अधिक स्पष्टता के साथ अपने विचारों विचार को दोहराया और उनका समर्थन किया । इस प्रश्नोत्तर हो में २३ जून सन् १८५ को वेलियम ने कमेटी के सामने बयान किया of improving their national institution on the English model. . So far from having the idea of driving the English into the sea uppermost in their minds, they have ho notion of any improvement but such as rives their connection with the English, and makes tlhem dependent on English protec tion ana instruction 'The only means at our disposal , s, to set the natives on a process of European improvement, to which they are already suficiently inclinedThey will then cease to desire and ail at independence on the old Indian footing, A sudden change will then be impossible k and a long con tinuance of our present connection with Itdia will even be assured to us. The natives will not rise against us The national activity will be fully and harmlessly employed in acquiring and difusing European । knowledge, and naturalising huropean institutions, The educated classes, will naturally cling to us There is no class of our subjects to whol we are so thoroughly necessary as those whose opinions have been cast in the English mold : they are spoiled for a purely native regime, they have everything to fear from the premature establishment of a native Government ; . The Indians will, 1 hone, soon 5tand in the same position towards us in which Te once stood towards the Romans, Tacitus informs us, that it was the policy of Julius Agrieola to instruct the sons of the leading men among the IBritons in the literature and science of Rone a give hem a taste for the refinements of Roman civilization, we all knoए
