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“...languages, and to teach your system to a few lads, whom we could send out to our several Mission Schools. I
“am not certain whether it would not be an object and one of the greatest you have yet tried, for your Society to send out some person of
‘rather studious habit to this place for five or three years, to attempt to introduce your system on this side the Ganges. I would
‘recommend the subject to your most earnest consideration. If your excellent Institution could not, consistently with its rules do so, yet
‘some arrangements might be made between your Committee and that of the London Missionary Society.
‘ Had I the pen of a ready writer, many arguments might be adduced to urge this subject on the attention of your Committee. There
‘is, however, one, which is equal to a thousand. Say China contains 150,000,000 souls, Cochin-China, Corea, Loo-choo, J apan, and
‘ other places connected with China, tributary to it, 60 or 80,000,000 more, (which, perhaps, is rather a large estimate, ) then...”
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