The Forum June 24 1924

The irritation which has been caused to mebers of the Arya Samaj by rahatma Gandhi's analysis of the causes of the tension between Hindus and Moslems in India seems to have arisen out of a feeling that he has not been able to hold the scale% oven in distributing Blame to the various contributors to the mischief The members of the Samaj say that it was not necessary for a proper study of the et [...] The so-called culture of the former section is unnatural devoid of the best elements and uninspired by the best ideals of the East and of the West ; the culture of the latter section is also too fomal too mechanical too narrow to suggest anything of the deepest and ampler curents of truly Indian life and thought. [...] The Inquisition has been associated in the mind of Christendom with horrid things done in the name of religion Rafael Sebastini in his "Torquematda and the Spanish Inquisition" tells us the story of the rise and perversion of the institution which was at first instituted to fight the battle of the Catholic Church against hertics. [...] the social aim of the nester!' West has been largely the conquest of the external en % iromnent which it has sought to effect through a variance of the Ids' entering into the constitution of the getrno-plasm so as to enable the organism to more awl more adapt itself to the environment." Such then is the fundsmental difference between the stmeturel coseeption of society in Hindu India and the [...] To those were added in the case of the Brahmans teaching performing sacrifices for others and receiving gifts ; in the case of the Kahatryas defence and protection of the people ; and in the case of the Vaisyas trade and agriculture.