The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . to Calcutta toexplain. Finding tliere was no way out of it, andassuming his proudest mien, he said to his lordship : You think I am the slave of my word ; not so, myword is my slave. Elphinstone, the historian, declares lying amongthe Hindu is most common in people connected withthe government, a class which spreads far in authorities likewise attribute the tendency tofalsehood to the influence of the methods introducedby Europeans, and the concensus of opi
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . to Calcutta toexplain. Finding tliere was no way out of it, andassuming his proudest mien, he said to his lordship : You think I am the slave of my word ; not so, myword is my slave. Elphinstone, the historian, declares lying amongthe Hindu is most common in people connected withthe government, a class which spreads far in authorities likewise attribute the tendency tofalsehood to the influence of the methods introducedby Europeans, and the concensus of opinion war-rants the belief that whatever may be the Hindusweakness morally it has largely expanded sincethe change in his estate. The Hindu, as he appears on the surface to theresident European, is a creature for whom the latterhas no use save as he may cater to his wants andremain perfectly submissive to his exactions. Butsometimes the Hindu is a very different creature, asyou discover when you fathom him, and I have notoften more thoroughly miscalculated a man at thestart than I did Dave. In the first place, let me say. 16 DAVE AND HIS KIND. that his true character, in so far as it related to hisdisposition and man nature, if I may so put it, wasnot one to hold up as a model for the young, or forthat matter, present as a commendable type to thoseof any age. He was undeniably malevolent, artfullyvindictive and Machiavelian in his hatred of thosewho had brought his people to what they had becomein his eyes, mere puppets. He would not haveshed a drop of blood, but, judging the common foewith a perception which at first amazed me, hisvengeance would have taken the form of wreakingmost calculated to insure indescribable anguish—the purely mental and pitilessly prolonged. Forlike he would repay like. There appeared no senseof personal injury in the inexhaustible depth of hisanimosity. In his gloating over that which is notdwelt upon in publications or referred to in mis-sionary le
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