Hindu Superiority: An Attempt to Determine the Position of the Hindu Race in the Scale of NationsRajputana Printing Works, 1906 - 454 pages |
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... highest mountains , some of the big- gest rivers and intensely cold seasons , may be found along with arid , treeless deserts , sandy waterless plains , and the hottest days . To a student of humanity or of Nature , India even now is ...
... highest mountains , some of the big- gest rivers and intensely cold seasons , may be found along with arid , treeless deserts , sandy waterless plains , and the hottest days . To a student of humanity or of Nature , India even now is ...
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... highest peaks and not by the low heights to which they here and there sink ; that the first rank among the mountains is assigned to the Himalayas by Mounts Everest , Dhavalgiri and Kanchanjanga , and not ΧΧΧ . INTRODUCTION .
... highest peaks and not by the low heights to which they here and there sink ; that the first rank among the mountains is assigned to the Himalayas by Mounts Everest , Dhavalgiri and Kanchanjanga , and not ΧΧΧ . INTRODUCTION .
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... highest note of which rises no higher than 6,000 years . But matters are improving , and even these pious souls will in time break the shell and come out into a world in which cen- turies will be replaced by millenniums . Mr. Baldwin ...
... highest note of which rises no higher than 6,000 years . But matters are improving , and even these pious souls will in time break the shell and come out into a world in which cen- turies will be replaced by millenniums . Mr. Baldwin ...
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... highest development of his faculties and powers . There was thus a wise and statesmanlike classifica- tion which procured a general distribution of wealth , expelled misery and want from the land , promoted mental and moral progress ...
... highest development of his faculties and powers . There was thus a wise and statesmanlike classifica- tion which procured a general distribution of wealth , expelled misery and want from the land , promoted mental and moral progress ...
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... highest social dignities or sink to the lowest positions , according to the inherent qualities they might possess . The son of a Brahman sometimes became a Ksha- triya , sometimes a Vaishya , and sometimes a Sudra . At the same time , a ...
... highest social dignities or sink to the lowest positions , according to the inherent qualities they might possess . The son of a Brahman sometimes became a Ksha- triya , sometimes a Vaishya , and sometimes a Sudra . At the same time , a ...
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Page xxv - I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which will deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
Page 426 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 297 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Page xxv - Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.
Page 39 - ... each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a...
Page 365 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 160 - The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 19 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations.
Page 90 - O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works ! creature, in whom excell'd Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
Page 323 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.