Summary: all paths of employment by superior industry and intelligence. As a body, the Oorya neither tills, nor plants, nor rives, nor builds, nor traffics. They seem to fall below the last condition of human degradation. I must do them the justice, however, to say that, whenever they rise out of their lethargy and shake hands with the present”

This indicates the challenges faced by the educated class in Orissa despite the progress in education. The emergence of a conscious educated class, however, laid the foundation for future socio-political developments in the province.