The New Review November 1939

The coal area in Assam lies in the South-western corner of the Khasi Hills between the Urn Mawblei and the border of the Garo Hills. [...] But in the primary and middle school the obstacle to the spread of girls' education is not so much the want of money as the want of women teachers. [...] But the slowness with which in spite of twenty years of serious effort its solution is being attained is largely due not so much to public apathy or even to poverty and still less to the jealousy of the stronger sex as to the want of knowledge of where the root of the problem lies. [...] These scholars knew the languages religions and culture of the IndEuropean race fairly well ; and they found that the religions of the IndGermans were based on nature-mythology i. e. they worshipped the powers of nature and their gods were the sun the moon and the stars. [...] From this wasTHE ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF GOD 403 developed the higher polytheism the worship of the sky-god the rain-god the thunder-god and so on: Monotheism arose either by one of the many gods becoming the first and primary one or by the idea of the world-soul who animates the whole universe.