Modern Review June 1921

duty in what future hope can they live who imagine that they have attained completeness in their great grand-fathers and whose sole idea is to shield themselves against the influx of the Modern behind the barriers of antiquated belief and custom ? The Englishman has come through the breach in our crumbling walls as the messenger of the Lord of the world-festval to tell us that the world has [...] His largness of heart and breadth of mind impelled him to make a life-long endeavour to clear the way for an acceptance of whaever elements in the British are of value for the true History of India and to strive for the removal of whatever obstructions stand in the way of India's attainment of perfection. [...] Ile dedicated his life to opening up the royal road by which the thoughtreasure of the East may pass to the West and of the West to the East. [...] The career of king Nahusa narrated in chapter 10-14; of the Udyoga Parva is in the opinion of Muir I° intended to exemplify the nemesis awaitiag all resistance to the pretensions of the prieshood and contempt of their persons or authority. [...] Vedic practices ] is the thing chiefly to be desired.' Here it will be seen that the inquisitive serpent not disposed like other people to take the supremacy of the ltralimans on trust hits the best of the argument for Vudhisthira is unable to lustily the Braman's position by the fact of his birth and has to fall back on the authority of the Veda which gives the Brahmans the special privi