The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . HK GUARDS AS HE REVERES. 171 understand the Hindu poetry to comprehend howthe monkey secured the place he has in the fealtyof the people. Hannmans aid to Rama will neverbe forgotten, and he is supposed to have been theleader of an aborigine tribe closely resemblingmonkeys. This being as near as the Hindu can getto the materialization he follows his natural bentand illustrates in form, animate or inanimate, asthe opportunity may offer. There is a hospital atBombay for s
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . HK GUARDS AS HE REVERES. 171 understand the Hindu poetry to comprehend howthe monkey secured the place he has in the fealtyof the people. Hannmans aid to Rama will neverbe forgotten, and he is supposed to have been theleader of an aborigine tribe closely resemblingmonkeys. This being as near as the Hindu can getto the materialization he follows his natural bentand illustrates in form, animate or inanimate, asthe opportunity may offer. There is a hospital atBombay for sick or wounded animals, where theyare cured, if possible, and if not, kindly cared foruntil they die. The providing of wells and troughsfor animals is regarded as a religious duty, andwidespread is the belief in the immortality of thesouls of all animal kind. XXIV. POUNDS, AND We have heard a great deal of the advantagesChristian civilization has conferred upon the natives are so much better off now thanformerly, and that system and order have replacedthe old-time disorganization under the rapacioussway of the native rulers and princes. Turning to the Statesmans Year Book for 1899,the highest English authority for statistics of thekind, it will be found that the governments largestsingle item of revenue was the ninety-two millionsof dollars from land tax, it and the twenty-ninemillions received from duties on salt, which is agovernmental monopoly, coming from the tillers ofthe soil. Add to these items the eighteen millions ofdollars in support of the opium monopoly, and thetwenty millions liquor excise receipts, and a hundred # POUNDS, SHILUNGS AND PENCE. 173 and sixty millions of the three hundred and thirtymillions of revenue, all told, are accounted millions are credited to railway re-ceipts, while ten and a half millions were
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