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Thomas B. Macaulay

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of

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Macaulay suggests that a certain group should focus on improving local languages by adding scientific terms from Western languages. This process will gradually make those local languages capable of spreading knowledge widely among the general population.

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