[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 3.8.1 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 3.8.1 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 3.8.1 - **Language:** English ### [3.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.1) But I am sure we shall all have felt great pleasure and some comfort in knowing that a man so able, so laborious, so full of ideas as Mr. Gladstone, should still return in his leisure time to the old subjects which formed so large a portion of his school days. I hope I shall not be abusing his kindness by attributing to him an excessive educational conservatism which perhaps he would repudiate. But I cannot but think he intends to encourage us to hold fast to the old studies, as to which, though they cannot keep the exclusive place which was formerly theirs, we have Mr. Gladstone's authority for saying that there is no better foundation for the highest culture than the old Greek literature, and that in that literature there is nothing more healthy, more noble and splendid, than the early part of it, which Mr. Gladstone has done so much to illustrate and recommend to this generation. I propose a vote of thanks to Mr. Gladstone, to which, I am sure, you will accord a hearty reception. (Cheers.) Mr. Gladstone, in thanking his audience for the manner in which he had been received, and telling them how refreshing it was for an old man to come back among young ones, standing more or less in the position he once stood himself, concluded with these words: — - [Previous: 3.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.8) - [Next: 3.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.2) - [Up: 3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.1) · Pramāṇa