...Indian (particularly Hindu) culture; he argued against support for the inculcation of, what he termed, 'medical doctrines which would disgrace an English...astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long,...

...but India is, of course, the ideal theater for the absurdly literal reading of mythology as including "medical doctrines which would disgrace an English...astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long,...

...wherever they differ from those of Europe differ for the worse, and whether, when we can patronize sound philosophy and true history, we shall countenance,...astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long,...

...subjects. The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which, by universal confession,...Astronomy, which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school— History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years...

...languages in which . . . there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own . . . whether, when we can patronise sound philosophy and...astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long...

...literature and language which were flourishing when Europe was still a place of savages - that we had "medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in the girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet tall and reigns thirty...

...from those of Europe differ for the worse; and whether, when we can patronize sound philosophy from true history, we shall countenance, at the public...astronomy, which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long,...

...subjects. The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which, by universal confession,...Astronomy, which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school — History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years...

...spite of the discovery of a glorified India by the orientalists, dismissed Indian culture as made up of 'medical doctrines which would disgrace an English...Astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, History, abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long,...

...Indian culture as a colossal mass of unadulterated superstition. He inquired whether the British should "countenance at the public expense medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farriar, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding-school, history, abounding...