Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The bright and the dark the ugly and the beautiful the Hindus and the Muslims have developed themselves according to the fashion of different countries. [...] The same skin and the same blood form the body of the brahmin and the body of the Sudra. [...] Indeed the geologists tell us the land itself is divided into two parts structurally quite different and distinct the Deccan plateau and the Himalayan ranges with the IndGangetic plain : the former is formed out of the most ancient and stable and on the whole horizontally bedded rocks of the earth while the latter is of compartively recent origin formed out of a more flexible and weak [...] The complete disappearance of the Aztecs and Mayas in South America the decadence of the Red Indians in North America of the Negroes in Africa as a result of a fierce clash with European peoples and European culture illustrate the point. [...] All the resources of man are to be employed in the achievement of this single object which alone is coducive to the achievement of the suvorluni bonum of life the maximum amount of pleasure.