Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . e is more caste-ridden than Travancore,1 in the southwesterly extremity of the penin- Probably before death has done its work the vultures and the jackals begin theirs,and so the roads which lead to the holy places are lined with rows of white bonesand bleached skulls. Whence this more than brutal hardening? What has driedup all the fountains of human sympathy? It is caste.—Quoted in Warneck, Mod-ern Missions and Culture, p. 368. 1 In Travancore they [Pariahs] are not allowed to pass along the public streets,and
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . e is more caste-ridden than Travancore,1 in the southwesterly extremity of the penin- Probably before death has done its work the vultures and the jackals begin theirs,and so the roads which lead to the holy places are lined with rows of white bonesand bleached skulls. Whence this more than brutal hardening? What has driedup all the fountains of human sympathy? It is caste.—Quoted in Warneck, Mod-ern Missions and Culture, p. 368. 1 In Travancore they [Pariahs] are not allowed to pass along the public streets,and even in the city of Madras there is a street at the entrance to which there is anotice forbidding Pariahs to pass that way. They are not permitted to draw waterfrom the village wells, and in many cases suffer severely from this prohibition. Ihave known places where they have been obliged to content themselves with muddegenerated from a foul hole, though there was an abundant supply of good waterwithin easy reach. Except in a few very exceptional cases, they are not permitted. a 2 D Q ^I s u W x THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 249 sula. Brahmanism reigns there with its most extravagant Murray Mitchell, in a volume entitled In Southern India, refersto Brahmanism as found in that section as follows: Caste is intenselyand exceptionally strong, and, as elsewhere, stands in the way of allprogress. The degradation of the low castes, consequent on the absurdand oppressive laws of caste, is terrible here, and hardly to be example, no native Christian, however educated and intelligent, norany person of low caste, can obtain employment in a public office, forfear of polluting those officials who may be of higher caste. Then theschool difficulties are endless. The children of some of the inferiorcastes dare not even approach a school where higher-caste lads aretaught. The disabilities are inconceivable and so are the injustice andinequality of t
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