Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India December 1927

The antagonism to the theory of evolution is justified to the extent that it is a conscious or subconscious revolt against the perpetual bondage of Nature to which the theory of evolution indirectly and practically condemns man. [...] This is the supreme message of Vedanta." IDEALS OF INDIAN WOMEN BY SISTER NIVEDITA As the light of dawn breaks on the long curving street of the Indian village the chance passer-by may see at every door some kneeling woman busied with the ceremony of the Salutation of the Threshold. [...] The lower classes move freely in all countries for household work and the earning of their livelihood compel ; and in the aristocratic closeness of her retreat the Mahomedan woman ranks first the Rajput second and only thirdly the Bengali the screen is always more easily lifted for the Hindu than for the Moslem. [...] But if we look for the unique dignity of ethical achievement for the translation of wifehood not into a novel but into a relgion we must turn to the Hindu life suffused as that is with the pursuit of the ideals of the Mahabharata the Ramayana and the Puranas. [...] The cohouse the dairy the kitchen the granary the chapel with a hundred other offices divide the attention of the ladies of the household.