Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . science, and the juris-prudence of the Hindu race. In likemanner they have been the creators andthe custodians of the secular literature,such as it is, and of the educationalforces existent in Indian society. Theirexclusive claims in all of these partic-ulars amount to a monopoly of the reallife of the Indian races. The Brahmans are close alongside thenative Hindu princes, and are theircounselors and teachers. Locally, theyhave
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . science, and the juris-prudence of the Hindu race. In likemanner they have been the creators andthe custodians of the secular literature,such as it is, and of the educationalforces existent in Indian society. Theirexclusive claims in all of these partic-ulars amount to a monopoly of the reallife of the Indian races. The Brahmans are close alongside thenative Hindu princes, and are theircounselors and teachers. Locally, theyhave the center of their power in thegreat middle region of India, just as thesouthern triangle has an excess of the OldDravidian populations, and as the slopesof the Himalayas are occupied by theIndo-Burmese. The Brahmans, as thespokesmen of this dominant Hindu race,represent not only the mind, the will,the purpose, and the native power ofmodern India, but also the continuityof the Aryan race and the institutionsof that race from the earliest epoch ofhuman history to the present day. 690 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ChafTEr XL. -Aninial and Vegetable ResourcesOE HE Aryans began in In-dia as poets and war-riors, and have endedas priests and primitive aspectwas one of aggres-sion, conquest, ener-getic activity; the present aspect is one ofsubmission, quiescence, passivity. Thereis only one point of view from wliich tlieenergies of the race may be said to beunabated, and that is in the perpetualbut timid industry of the people. It isnow proper to review briefly the condi-tions of environment under which tljetransformation of the India of antiquityinto the India of modern times has beeneffected. This vast region, a peninsula in itsgeneral form and relations to the changes has perhaps been less af-in the environ- fg^ted in its Original condi- ment oi the in- & dicans. tions of climate and phys- ical character under the great and con-tinuous burden of populatio
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