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²⁶³⁷ Vide 'Speeches by Lord Macaulay' with Minute on Indian Education, edited by G. M Young (Oxford Un. Press 1952). The minute is on pp 344-361 On p. 349 he makes the following statement 'I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues *I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European Library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia*' Vide p 359 of the above work for the above oft-quoted passage