The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . n-guishable from other women. At least, so far asoutward semblance goes, and those who know andappreciate the natural tenderness of the Hinduwomen toward all living things, will not believeher likely to exercise religious persecution upon asister, grounded solely upon causes over which thatsister could have no control. It appears to have ever been the common chargeagainst the Eastern peoples that they destroyedtheir children. The early Christians were notexempt from it
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . n-guishable from other women. At least, so far asoutward semblance goes, and those who know andappreciate the natural tenderness of the Hinduwomen toward all living things, will not believeher likely to exercise religious persecution upon asister, grounded solely upon causes over which thatsister could have no control. It appears to have ever been the common chargeagainst the Eastern peoples that they destroyedtheir children. The early Christians were notexempt from it, the pagans not only bringing itagainst them, but the Christians themselves charg-ing each other with the practice. As regards India,the stories told have entered so largely into the im-pressions conceived of the country that the disa-busing of the popular mind on this point is, as theattempted disillusion of other old-established im-pressions, apparently a work of , I quote Dr. Rowe : It is to be doubtedwhether the sinful practice of infanticide is as rifehere (India) as in some Western XXXLTHE POINT OF VIEW. I gave some time to the investigation of the char-acter of worship connected with Sivaism, whichhas been the source of misconception and not a littlemisrepresentation. It is a subject which has beenrendered more conspicuous in its avoidance by mostmissionary and other writers, than had it beentaken up and discussed in its general bearings asother points in the Hindu belief and practice. Tosay that a thing, simply on its face, is necessarilyvile is to verify the old adage of evil to him whoevil thinks. The Hindus are not the only people who rever-ence the creative. It is common throughout all theEastern countries. Man being the highest form ofcreation, such as is symbolical of his reproduction,to so realistic and figurative a people, naturally THE POINT OF VIEW. 235 comes within their pantheonistic other words, that whic
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