The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ^day life of the village would sooner be thrust in thefire than outstretched to a low caste man, is, in thehigh or middle caste man, an evidence of belief inthe faith he professes, which we cannot appreciateto its fullest significance. Occasionally friction ensues between the Hindusand their Mohammedan neighbors and swells toproportions of serious import. Out of differencesin religious belief there grow animosities in India 372 PRAYTIMB AND as elsewhere, and
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ^day life of the village would sooner be thrust in thefire than outstretched to a low caste man, is, in thehigh or middle caste man, an evidence of belief inthe faith he professes, which we cannot appreciateto its fullest significance. Occasionally friction ensues between the Hindusand their Mohammedan neighbors and swells toproportions of serious import. Out of differencesin religious belief there grow animosities in India 372 PRAYTIMB AND as elsewhere, and those between the Hindus andthe followers of Mohammed—^faiths so diametricallyopposite—reach the culmination of bitterness, whenfestivals coincide. The Mohammedan dates beingmovable and those of the Hindu fixed, there cannotbe an avoidance in sometimes striking situation as to the processions become as hasnot been unknown to us in the heat of presidentialelection campaigns. Opposing forces meet, the onewill not give way for the other, and there is a features, such as the sprinkling of theblood of swine on the walls of a MohammedanMosque, with the counter deadly insult of smearingthe face of a Hindu temple with beef fat, add tothe fury of the flame of discord. Once the principle involved in these desecrationswas made the common bond of unity between Mos-lem and Hindu. The Englishman, with his charac-teristic disregard of the religious fealty of thenative—Hindu or Mohammedan—used both lardand suet, the product of the hog and of the c
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