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engraving, thus the fine arts cannot exist among them … They have scarcely any notion of medicine or surgery; and they do not allow of anatomy. As to science, the telescope, the microscope, the electric battery, are unknown, except as playthings. The compass is not universally employed in the navy, nor are its common purposes fully understood. Navigation, astronomy, geography, chemistry, are either not known, or practised only on antiquated and exploded principles. 163 Newman takes up two other fields of intellectual activity which he believed were forbidden to Muslims
lost between missionaries and most colonial officials, many of whom were unbearably arrogant. Winston abhorred them in the beginning and Miss Dorothy Mackley distrusted them at the end. 4 Colonial residents were equally irritated by the prudery of the Wesleyans. In 1925 the Mandalay District Medical Officer, Dr Sheldon, lost patience with the stream of pallid missionaries shuffling through his surgery. He wrote disparagingly to the WMMS Medical Officer in London suggesting that they should have more fresh air and vigorous exercise
church members including a traumatised and frightened Maung Tin, who symbolised the depressed state of Mandalay itself. 12 In January 1946 Firth toured the Methodist District, compiling inventories of bombed out buildings as he went. Meiktila was ‘completely destroyed’. In Kyaukse the Boys School was gutted and the slojd building had been damaged. 13 Little remained of the Girls School or the Women’s Work bungalow, and the church roof had been blown off. A doctor was using the Mission House as his surgery. In Maymyo