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250 AMERICAN LAW OF COPYRIGHT.
degree of confidence in the minds of the people. Mr
Adam, in conversation, confirmed the statement made
by the Missionary Dr Duff to the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland a few years ago, that a foundation
must be laid in the minds of the Hindoos by
teaching them natural science, before they can embrace
or comprehend Christianity; but he added, that
unless they are taught in their vernacular tongues,
the idea of improving them extensively is chimerical.
Dr Duffs teaching is exclusively through the medium
of English. In many districts, the natives are very
nearly as much oppressed under the English as they
formerly were under their native rulers.
Dec. 14. Ther. 42 . American Law of Copyright.
-The Americans deny copyright to any author or
publisher of a work first published in a foreign country,
and suffer some evils themselves in consequence.
This state of the law greatly retards the growth of a
native literature, because no publisher can afford to
pay their own authors adequately, when a more lucrative
trade can be driven by the plunder of European
literature. It impedes the advance of their own
people in those feelings, and in that species of knowledge
that are particularly related to their own condition.
They devour the miscellaneous productions
of European minds, many of them deeply imbued
with principles the most hostile to American improvement,
while they afford little encouragement
to the production of books suited to their own advancement.
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/290/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.