The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ngs ofheavenly life he would point to that of his gods asthe visual illustration. I cannot make fully clear the idea of the Hindusdevotion to his devas, or bright beings, thathas come to me. There are so many apparentcontradictions in his position toward them whichis one moment thoroughly human and the nextreverential; treating them as he would wish himselftreated and, immediately reversing this, make obei-sance in seeming recognition of supernal is that in
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ngs ofheavenly life he would point to that of his gods asthe visual illustration. I cannot make fully clear the idea of the Hindusdevotion to his devas, or bright beings, thathas come to me. There are so many apparentcontradictions in his position toward them whichis one moment thoroughly human and the nextreverential; treating them as he would wish himselftreated and, immediately reversing this, make obei-sance in seeming recognition of supernal is that in some Christian forms of worshippuzzling to reconcile, save through conceding thepossibility of ramifications in the working out ofthe points of belief leading to the regarding of suchdetail as essential. One can feel, though he cannotalways convey comprehension of his especial trend,and I dare say this confession is but the voicing ofthe religious state of many of all faiths. You laugh at the Hindu for being as an over-grown boy with a doll, silly and puerile in conduct-ing himself before and toward it as though it were. 248 A STUDY IN GODS. alive. Very like, elsewhere, causes no merriment,but, on the contrary, is witnessed with solemnityand awe. I am not defending the belief, the formof devotion, or the religious precepts and practiceof the Hindus, holding in any part their course ofconduct as to be emulated. We have a faith whichin all going to constitute God in man is unique inthat it is the only one which rounds out and makesperfect the breathing image of the Divine enable but the toy stage. No more do Ibelieve the Heavenly Father will consign to ever-lasting torture a child whose life has not gonebeyond relative infancy, than He will the con-fiding Hindu, who has the faith of a child, if notthe discernment of a man. The manufacture of gods is, as may be imagined,an important industry in India, and is carried onafter a manner so prosaic and matter of fact as
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