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Rh educated Telugus have studied Telugu —the educated classes in each language district have studied the language and literature of the district—with an earnestness and assiduity which are highly creditable to them, and which have never been exceeded in the history of any of the languages of the world-except perhaps by the earnestness and assiduity with which Sanskrit has been studied by the Brahmans.” But while this intensive study of the individual languages has developed much intellectual acuteness in the native scholars and resulted in the progressive refinement of the individual languages, he thinks that this specialization has brought about a narrowness of outlook and has not helped them in the acquirement of grasp and comprehensiveness. What was gained in the shape of acuteness was not balanced by a broad vision. Thus, their philology had remained as rudimentary and