The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . r, Pre-server and Disintegrator of all material things;that He pervades three worlds, Earth, Air andHeaven, and has revealed His will in three booksRig, Yajur and Sama Vedas. This is Sir MonierWilliams, interpretation, and a most interestingone. No peer of the Realm of Britain is prouderof his birth, says Dr. Williams, -than is thepoorest Brahmin, and no sovereign values his crownmore highly than does the high caste man, no mat-ter how humble his position, esteem the w
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . r, Pre-server and Disintegrator of all material things;that He pervades three worlds, Earth, Air andHeaven, and has revealed His will in three booksRig, Yajur and Sama Vedas. This is Sir MonierWilliams, interpretation, and a most interestingone. No peer of the Realm of Britain is prouderof his birth, says Dr. Williams, -than is thepoorest Brahmin, and no sovereign values his crownmore highly than does the high caste man, no mat-ter how humble his position, esteem the wearing ofthe sacred thread. Meantime, the boy has been through the cere-mony of the cutting of the hair, which is a religiousone, as also is that of the three perforations of eachear and the succeeding circumcision. For twelveyears he may study one of the Vedas, or if to devotehimself to the church, as we would say, is his pur-pose, give such period to each of the three greatbooks. In his own literature, there is that appeal-ing to him, if studious, requiring a life time tomaster, a philosophy deeper and more resourceful. 326 A BOY! than of any other he knows, classics unsurpassed anda history beyond computation to fix its inception. ^ I am convinced, affirms Professor Miiller, indiscanting upon our own position as to the Hinduclassics, that, placed as we are in this life, we havelessons to learn from the Veda, quite as importantas the lessons we learn at school from Homer andVirgil, and lessons from the Vendanta, quite asinstructive as the systems of Plato and modern Hindu is a bright and capable student,absorbing information with rare facility, and adapt-ing himself to the methods of civilization so cleverlyas to have greatly complicated things in the Empire. That the influence in England looking to theeducation of the Hindu should have prevailed, andfor a time carried everything before it, was charac-teristic of the governmental 3delding whenever amore or less se
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