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 the population.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Borrowed Class Country Degrees Dialects Enrich Fit Great Knowledge Leave Mass May Population Refine Render Science Terms Them Those Vehicles Vernacular Western

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