The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . it. This may seemvery wrong, remarks the distinguished scholar,and very unscientific to the scientific. But itcannot be helped. It is the nature of ancientthought and ancient language to be unscientific,and we must learn to master it as well as we caninstead of finding fault with it and complainingthat our forefathers did not reason exactly as wedo. In this view of the situation one can approachthe consideration of Hinduism in all its immensityof perplexity, and contin
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . it. This may seemvery wrong, remarks the distinguished scholar,and very unscientific to the scientific. But itcannot be helped. It is the nature of ancientthought and ancient language to be unscientific,and we must learn to master it as well as we caninstead of finding fault with it and complainingthat our forefathers did not reason exactly as wedo. In this view of the situation one can approachthe consideration of Hinduism in all its immensityof perplexity, and continuity of complexity, withthe assurance the hearer will himself recognize thatthe people spoken of are not as he, having naughtin common in inheritance, association or , this is not exactly true in the abstractif it is in principle. When the Englishman, as heis so prone to do, contemptuously refers to thethe Hindu as a nigger he is, in a certain sense,so designating himself, for if the one is such, so astruly is the other. The two are Aryans by descent,and likewise are our Teutonic, Celtic, Grecian and. 33 THE INDIA OF THE INDIANS. other brethren too numerous to mention. Thegenerally ascribed meaning of the generic term is noble blood, which appears to afford considerablesatisfaction to European historians and writers, asthere is scarcely one who has not coupled thedefinition with the appellative. The Hindu being an Aryan, and one of us, is ofcourse of noble blood, but there would be sur-prise to hear his European brother in India soaddress him, not even the fellowship in Christ,—which is in books—being in practice there, Protes-tant missionaries themselves drawing the line atpreaching it. If I were to look over the whole world, writesMiiller, to find out a country most richly endowedwith all the wealth, power and beauty that naturecan bestow—in some parts a very Paradise on earth—I should point to India. If I were asked underwhat sky the human mind ha
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