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14 found advisable to omit the course on Mental Philosophy as a special subject, combining the Philosophy of Inductive Science (its most important division) with those Sciences which are its best illustration and exercise. Philosophical speculations are very consonant to all intelligent natives, but as in the case of Mathematics are only too apt to be regarded as simple abstractions, and somewhat wildly treated unless forced into application by external influences. This in the case of Morality must be the work of time ; practical morality being like all other practice chiefly a matter of habit ; as it is the most important of all teachings that we can impart to the natives of this country, so it must be of the slowest growth ; the difference of our social habits and those of the natives keeps us so far apart, that we can do little more than instil the principles of Morality as a Science, and do our best to illustrate them practically by our own conduct in our dealings with them and each other. The seed thus planted must be left to grow by the strength of its own inherent vitality. It has done so elsewhere, and looking at its progress among those chiefly in contact with us, spite of the sarcasm of those superficial observers who would have all plants grow with the rapidity of Jonah’s gourd, we think that India will in the end prove a not uncongenial soil. Our views may be thought Utopian, but if Ethics be, as we believe, a true Inductive Science, based on the Phenomena of Experience, we have sufficient faith in the power of truth to believe that it will eventually overcome the mass of prejudice and deficient perception at present arrayed against it, and in time even vanquish its more potent enemies, apathy and habit. We must only demand a considerable extension of the period Dr. Cumming has assigned for our labours.

For a practical application of Mental Philosophy nothing is better fitted than the Physical Sciences, and it is as an exercise of the ratiocinative faculties and the intellect, and not as a mass of experimental truths only or chiefly that these Sciences lay claim to a place in an University course. In the discussion which has been excited at home, by the proposition to introduce Natural Science more prominently into the curriculum of Cambridge, much ridicule has been thrown on the notion, that how to make a pump is a desirable part of the education of an English gentleman. With this view we entirely agree : it is not desirable. His time may be better employed than in studying the respective merits of the atmospheric and steam-engines as a specialty, but we consider that any man may profitably and usefully acquaint himself by practical study, with the modes of investigation which have been suc-