fackin’ whigs lads I swear
>Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was an English historian, poet, and Whig politician best known for his The History of England written in an elegant prose. Macaulay also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.
>The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was drafted by the First Law Commission, chaired by Thomas Babington Macaulay, under the Charter Act of 1833. The draft was submitted in 1837 and the Code was enacted in 1860, coming into force in 1862 during the British Raj
> Macaulay's 1835 Minute on Education promoted English over indigenous languages, aiming to create a class "Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste." Critics argue it eroded cultural confidence and created linguistic divides persisting today. Supporters credit it with modernizing education and enabling global integration
> Thomas Babington Macaulay critiqued pessimism in his 1830 review of Southey's Colloquies: "In every age everybody knows that up to his own time, progressive improvement has been taking place; nobody seems to reckon on any improvement in the next generation. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who say society has reached a turning point – that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us and with just as much apparent reason... On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?" He highlighted that history's pattern of progress counters doomsday views.
>Macaulay made his name as a young parliamentarian at this time, and he did so by intervening at two key press-points for the emergence of a transcolonial secularism: blasphemy law and the rights of religious minorities, especially Jews.
>We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
> Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
>An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
>Then out spake brave Horatius,the Captain of the Gate:
>‘To every man upon this earth
>Death cometh soon or late.
>And how can man die better
>than facing fearful odds,
>For the ashes of his fathers,
>And the temples of his Gods...’
>Lays of Ancient Rome
> Horatius, Larcius & Herminius stood on the bridge, which gave the Romans time to close the gates & save the city
>Thomas Babington Macaulay