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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

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Macaulay is saying that a certain group should focus on improving local languages by adding scientific words taken from Western languages. This process will gradually make these local dialects capable of sharing scientific knowledge with the general population.

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