The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . nstrated inhis life as one notes it in coming in direct contactwith him. Naturally this will lead to an acquaint-ance with the operation of the Vedic books if notto a technical, doctrinal, or dogmatical conceptionof them. IV. HE MAKES SO MANY OF THEM. The contemplation of tlie niasses of humanity isthe more deeply impressive when there is the largerrecognition of the preponderence of those we classifyunder the head of common. It was Lincoln, if I remember aright, who r
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . nstrated inhis life as one notes it in coming in direct contactwith him. Naturally this will lead to an acquaint-ance with the operation of the Vedic books if notto a technical, doctrinal, or dogmatical conceptionof them. IV. HE MAKES SO MANY OF THEM. The contemplation of tlie niasses of humanity isthe more deeply impressive when there is the largerrecognition of the preponderence of those we classifyunder the head of common. It was Lincoln, if I remember aright, who re-marked, the good Ivord must love common people,He makes so many of them. lyinked w4th the average paucity of means ofthe lowly is the relative meagreness of knowledge,and it is for the generally impecunious and themore or less ignorant that the scholastic and theaffluent make religion. Odd, when you think of who know nothing of the heart of hearts, soto speak, of the bulk of the earths people, interpretand define their spiritual necessities, their longingsand their hope of salvation—in short, their 34 HE MAKEvS SO MANY OF THEM. Enunciate doctrines, promulgate dogmas, createcreeds, establish regulations and decree formulaswhich the more learned and rich we are, we our-selves usually pay the less heed to. Yet we declare,those with whom we actually have no fraterniza-tion will be eternally damned if the} do not live anddie by the rules honored by us more in the breachthan in the observance. Strained! you say? Adapt something ap-proximately like it to India and if, after you haveassociated in connection your notion of Christiancivilization, you find your calculations correct, youwill have kept your bearings where I went hope-lessly adrift. It will be conceded, the test of a religious beliefis the evidence of it, and in no other relation of lifeis the inference of example regarded as more conclu-sive. The professing of a faith is deemed indicativeof a recogni
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