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Rh mother tongue. Both were liberal and generous. Both spent all their earnings for the good of the country, though in different ways and to different ends. Both were vastly erudite. Both are authors of a good many valuable works in Bengali. Both wrote learned reports on education, significant of their vast erudition and intelligence. To speak the truth, if they had done nothing else, merely these reports would have served to immortalise their names in the educational history of this land.

In fact, this report was the fundamental basis of Vidyasagar's official promotion and success in world. The Bengali books which he recommended in his report for introduction into the College as text-books, he intended compiling and publishing himself. He was only awaiting the permission of the authorities, and when that permission came, he began issuing the books, one by one.

When Babu Rassomoy Dutt saw, that Vidyasagar was charged with the report instead of himself, who was the Secretary to the College, and who, in ordinary course, ought to have been intrusted with the work, he thought naturally that the authorities were resolved to make Vidyasagar Secretary. He, therefore, deemed it advisable to resign his office beforehand, and, accordingly, sent