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make traveling easy and our Pandits interrupt to us in the common language what is written in books in the learned jargon. our leaders denounce it unpatrotical and heretical to wish for popular education except through the medium of the hoary dialect of the classical Telugu literature. They point with no ordinary pride and veneration to the Telugu translation of the Sanskrit M A H A B A R A T A, the most perfect achievement of the genius of the Telugu race before the Norman conquest and to the few (call them 'many', if you please) subsequent reproductions of the sacred dialect of the first gated by Vyasa out of compassion for the lower classes and women, who are forbidden to listen the the four vedas the exclusive property of the elect. But the world is moving too fast for our universities and academies. The Telugu people, like their brethren, are soon to qualify themselves to rule their Home. They have to make up for lost time. They have to learn at least to read the names on the voting papers; though the rules of voting written in the sacred dialect may be orally explained in the living profane tongue.
How long will the Telugu people be kept from what is due to them? Civilized man has to know much before he can be trusted to use his franchise without harm to himself and others. Useful know-
