India : what can it teach us? A course of lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge / by F. Max Müller.

  • Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900.
Date:
1899
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Credit: India : what can it teach us? A course of lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge / by F. Max Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WHAT CAN INDIA TEACH US? LECT0KE I. When I received from the Board of Historical Studies at Cambridge the invitation to deliver a course of lectures, specially intended for the candi- dates for the Indian Civil Service, I hesitated for some time, feeling extremely doubtful whether in a few public discourses I could say anything that would be of real use to them in passing their examinations. To enable young men to pass their examinations seems now to have become the chief, if not the only object of the Universities ; and to no class of students is it of greater importance to pass their examinations, and to pass them well, than to the candidates for the Indian Civil Service. But although I was afraid that attendance on a. few public lectures, such as I could give, would hardly benefit a candidate who was not already fully prepared to pass through the fiery ordeal of the three London examinations, I could not on the other hand shut my eyes completely to the fact that, after all. Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefiy, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which Universities can teach and o ought to teach—nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach—something that may not