. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . in history, would need a volumeto follow out, rather than a sentence; but broadly we maystate the thesis that behind the Sirkars (Governments)prestige, behind the anxious Empire, behind the puzzledpoliticians and globe-trotters of the hour, behind the dra-matic detail of Famine horrors and attendant epidemics,there is going on now, as of old, the cosmic drama ofgeologic and climatic change. We see how the peasantsuffers from drought, but we forget that the shepherd suf-fers even more; we see t
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . in history, would need a volumeto follow out, rather than a sentence; but broadly we maystate the thesis that behind the Sirkars (Governments)prestige, behind the anxious Empire, behind the puzzledpoliticians and globe-trotters of the hour, behind the dra-matic detail of Famine horrors and attendant epidemics,there is going on now, as of old, the cosmic drama ofgeologic and climatic change. We see how the peasantsuffers from drought, but we forget that the shepherd suf-fers even more; we see them both driven from their ancientfarms and pastures by the flaming sword of drought, thepitiless arrows of the desert sun. And as mens philosophyis the generalisation of their lives ; as their religion, theirtheology, express its ideals, we see how there must needshave arisen in the world two main classes of relifjious life-theories, active and passive, as well as of understand better the active Aryan, who would fainreact against nature and conquer her, so that for Zoroaster. Pioo u P3 H rt ^^ -^^O 1 ^ ^ (^ N a ^^ <; ^ 3 o ,/J r^ O W J <o o - a X r-i THE CITY OF THE DEAD. 177 he that plants a tree or digs a well fights with Ormuzdagainst the desert Ahriman; but we understand betteralso the passive submission to destiny of the Oriental reli-gions proper, as the inevitable philosophy of the pastoralNomad, the resignation of the peasant and the Dhangar(shepherd) overpowered by nature. Meantime a new landscape is opening. We have crossedthe hilly country, and the great Beejapoor plateau liesaround us, with the dome of Sultan Mahmouds statelytomb towering high above the landscape in solitary grandeur,just within the outer forty-mile circle of the city walls,keeping, as it were, watch and ward over the picturesqueruins of the famous City that was founded, built, flourishedand destroyed within two hundred years. A date palm ortwo, an occasional oasis of babu
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