Persia is the land of light, Greece the land of grace, India the land of dream, Rome the land of empire. It is true of all cultures that the greatest gift of life is the dream of a higher life.
India Quotes
In Indian diversity there is still the memory of very refined expressions which we have lost.
It is quite possible that India is the real world, and that the white man lives in a madhouse of abstractions… Life in India has not yet withdrawn into the capsule of the head. It is still the whole body that lives. No wonder the European feels dreamlike: the complete life of India is something […]
What we generally fail to realize is that in talking today to the Indians we are face to face with the direct descendants, as often as not, of people who were contemporaries of Ancient Egypt, and whose present culture, in most of its main essentials, is nearly the same as it was then, and is […]
All India knows of the Calcutta Municipality; but has any one thoroughly investigated the Big Calcutta Stink? There is only one. Benares is fouler in point of concentrated, pent-up muck, and there are local stenches in Peshawar which are stronger than the B.C.S.; but, for duffesed, soul-sickening expansiveness, the reek of Bombay beats both Benares […]
The nations of India discover a domineering taste for fooleries of that class which run into the barbaresque. Their religion is made up of fooleries.
He was a Sunnyasi – a houseless, wandering mendicant, depending on his neighbors for his daily bread; and so long as there is a morsel to divide in India neither priest nor beggar starves.
The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. The Hindus had […]
It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger’s nose till he is clear of Asia again.
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways […]
