The growth of a language--Carey identified with the transition stage
of Bengali--First printed books--Carey's own works--His influence on
indigenous writers--His son's works--Bengal the first heathen
country to receive the press--The first Bengali newspaper--The
monthly and quarterly Friend of India--The Hindoo revival of the
eighteenth century fostered by the East India Company--Carey's three
memorials to Government on female infanticide, voluntary drowning,
and widow-burning--What Jonathan Duncan and Col. Walker had
done--Wellesley's regulation to prevent the sacrifice of
children--Beginning of the agitation against the Suttee
crime--Carey's pundits more enlightened than the Company's
judges--Humanity triumphs in 1832--Carey's share in Ward's book on
the Hindoos--The lawless supernaturalism of Rome and of
India--Worship of Jaganath--Regulation identifying Government with
Hindooism--The swinging festival--Ghat murders--Burning of
lepers--Carey establishes the Leper Hospital in Calcutta--Slavery in
India loses its legal status--Cowper, Clarkson, and Carey.

Like the growth of a tree is the development of a language, as
really and as strictly according to law. In savage lands like those
of Africa the missionary finds the living germs of speech, arranges
them for the first time in grammatical order, expresses them in
written and printed form, using the simplest, most perfect, and most
universal character of all--the Roman, and at one bound gives the
most degraded of the dark peoples the possibility of the highest
civilisation and the divinest future. In countries like India and
China, where civilisation has long ago reached its highest level,
and has been declining for want of the salt of a universal
Christianity, it is the missionary again who interferes for the
highest ends, but by a different process. Mastering the complex