India and the future . • * ^ #» » «• .^ Metnsahibs, [To face p. MANNERS families with whom social intercourse is a privilege and apleasure. The difficulty in their case is that one is aptto feel like a semi-barbarian intruder upon an abode ofancient, fine-spun, aristocratic culture. One begins torealize the force of Arnolds lines : The brooding East with awe beheldIts impious younger world— —only that awe is perhaps not quite the emotion withwhich these grave Orientals regard our Western such households are as drops in the ocean of Indianlife. They show what might be and ma
India and the future . • * ^ #» » «• .^ Metnsahibs, [To face p. MANNERS families with whom social intercourse is a privilege and apleasure. The difficulty in their case is that one is aptto feel like a semi-barbarian intruder upon an abode ofancient, fine-spun, aristocratic culture. One begins torealize the force of Arnolds lines : The brooding East with awe beheldIts impious younger world— —only that awe is perhaps not quite the emotion withwhich these grave Orientals regard our Western such households are as drops in the ocean of Indianlife. They show what might be and may be ; but they areimmeasurably removed from the general level of what is. My second little experience may be more briefly had the pleasure of spending some days with a Britishofficial of high rank who makes it a rule to exclude fromhis kitchen all pork, bacon and other products of the pig,in order that his Muhammadan subordinates may be ableat any time to lunch or dine with him, without fear ofpartaking of any forbidden dish. As a matter of fact, Im
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