Sons of India 17th August 1909

The seed is sown and the fruitfulness of the soil determines the rapidity and richness of the harvest. [...] The increasing material prosperity of the people the steady growth of industrial enterprise the construction of important public works leading to the more regular and extended employment of labour the rise in the rates of wages for agricultural and artisan labourers and for domestic servants the unsettlement of popular ideas and beliefs and the relaxation of social and religious restrictions [...] Fortunately for the school a gentleman from Jaipur offered his services and for the present he is the only teacher The Páthashala is the first of its kind in the United Provinces and every credit is due to the three large-hearted workers who have thus thought of their less fortunate brethren and have realised the duties they owe to every member of the community. [...] The temple of the place or the verandah of the house of the enthusiast may become the school-room a clean swept floor would be the furniture and fine dust spread ohard grOund together with a piece of stick will serve as slate and pencil and then the lamp and books would be the only items of expediture. [...] Dim perhaps the reflection is poor image it may be of the reality behind but the reality is and ours is the task to rub away the cause of the dimness to cut away from the image where there is distortion and so to fashion that we may bring back out of the past something ennobling to the present and full of inspiration for the future.