Modern Review October 1921

The Hindu need.: the Mohammedan : the Mohammedan !reecho the Hindu if there is to be an Indian nation. The battles of the past have been merely the struggle to assert an equal strength. Like the border warfare of Englishmen and Scots they have proved the wrestling matches of combatants who knew diem. [...] livery month at the time of the new moon he would go in the dead of night to the temple and there he would olkr prayers to the goddess in the hope that she would give him the power to decipher the secret writing. [...] By his grace the light of the sky and the green verdure of the earth seemed to me espial to the wealth of kings. [...] Now the evening star would be gazing serenely down on the courtyard of his home where his young wife had tended the cows in the meadow and lit the lamp in the corner of the house while the tinkling of the temple hell spoke of the closing ceremony of the day. [...] He could see a peasant with a couple of fish dangling in his hand and a basket on his head walking through the meadow paths or making his way along the dikes of the paddy fields past the bamboo fences of the little hamlets returning to his village after the day's work in the dim light of the star-strewn sky.