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Excerpt from Researches in South Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrating the Civil, Moral, and Religious Condition of the Native Tribes; Including Journals of the Author's Travels in the Interior; Together With Detailed Accounts of the Progress of the Christian Missions
With the translation of the Scriptures into the lan guages and dialects of a kingdom, come translators, grammars, lexicons, type-founders, and printers, with all their literary and scientific apparatus. The litera ture of a country is brought into requisition; criticism and knowledge begin to circulate; and the collision of mind, which arises from opposition of sentiment, calls the slumbering energies of a nation into exercise. Every new translation of the Scriptures into a mo dern language provokes comparison the original languages are cultivated to dissipate the doubts which may be excited by the discrepan cles of translators the student of sacred literature, who, perhaps, in the commencement of his pursuits, thought of nothing but correcting a false translation, or making a new one, finds that there is no species of knowledge, Whether in science or literature, in_the history of men or manners, which may not be useful to him in his great object. Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but. Which will afterwards propagate itself in every direction.
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