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and that, according to their own rule, the time has arrived when instruction in western literature and science may be given on an extensive scale, without any fear of producing a reaction.
The proofs that such is the actual state of things have been already touched upon. As the principle of the school book society is, to print only such books as are in demand, and to dispose of them only to those who pay for them, its operations furnish, perhaps, the best test of the existing condition of public feeling in regard to the different systems of learning which are simultaneously cultivated in India. It appears, from their last printed report, that from January 1834 to December 1835 the following sales were effected by them:
| English books | 31,649 |
| Anglo-Asiatic, or books partly in English and partly in some eastern language | 4,525 |
| Bengalee | 5,754 |
| Hinduee | 4,171 |
| Hindusthanee | 3,384 |
| Persian | 1,454 |
| Uriya | 834 |
| Arabic | 36 |
| Sanskrit | 16 |
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