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Rh did not then pledge themselves to the exclusive mode of proceeding to which the rules of the School Book Society bind the latter. This discrepancy of opinion formed the chief, if not the only obstacle which prevented the consolidation of the designs of the two Associations. The views of both were directed to the promotion of moral and intellectual improvement among the Natives of India. If the avowed object of the Calcutta School Book Society be the preparation, publication, and cheap or gratuitous supply of works, useful in Schools and Seminaries of learning, the leading design of the School Society was to assist and improve existing Schools, and to establish and support any further Schools and Seminaries which may be requisite, and to prepare select pupils of distinguished talents by superior instruction for becoming Teachers and Translators. Such congenial purposes might easily have been reconciled, but for the cause above adverted to: experience, however, has demonstrated that the separation of the two Sister Institutions, by multiplying active agents in the general cause, has been productive of more extensive advantage than their coalition would have been able to effect.