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The Influence of Sir William Jones upon Sanskrit Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Alfred Master
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The advancement of learning is learning is chiefly made in these three ways—by pure research, by applied research, and by interesting the general public in the results achieved. The last item is not the least important, although scientists, especially those engaged in pure research, are apt to discount and even to ignore it. In any event it is essential to publish the fruits of research among fellow-scientists for criticism, appraisement, and development. The spark of learning, which passes from master to pupil, is so feeble that unless fanned to a vigorous flame by some external agency it is apt to flicker out. It was only by a stroke of good fortune that the works of Mendel were brought to light after a long lapse of years.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , February 1946 , pp. 798 - 806
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1946

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page 798 note 1 This and much of the following information is taken from Winternitz, M., History of Indian Literature, I, pp. 9ffGoogle Scholar.

page 799 note 1 Enciclopedia Italiana, art Sassetti.

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page 802 note 1 Letter to Dr. Russel of 28th September, 1786. Teignmouth's Memoirs of the Life, etc., of Sir William Jones.

page 804 note 1 E.g. Winternitz, , HIL., I, p. 12Google Scholar, which, however, substitutes “German” for “Gothic”.

page 804 note 2 E.g. “La philologie comprend I'ensemble des études qui servent à connaître la vie des peuples, même avant leur entrée dans I'histoire — ces études sont plus spécialement ďordre littéraire”. It comprises the history of the Sciences properly so-called, but not the Sciences themselves. Its two great branches are “philologie” proper and archæology. Grande Encyclopédie.

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page 805 note 2 ibid., p. 265.

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