History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.39

c11.39

True love never spends itself in a single channel. Dr. Carey and his colleagues did not consider their work done by merely propagating the truths of Christianity. They wanted sincerely to give our countrymen education, according to their own standards, in all departments of knowledge; and the wonderful activity displayed by them in their labour of love draws forth our greatest admiration, when we consider that the Government of the East India Company, afraid of disturbing the conservative views of our people in the earlier stages, did not assist but often obstructed them. There is not a subject in which these Europeans did not come forward to write books in Bengali in order to spread education amongst the masses.