This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... THE VOICES OF INDIA. Soil of Ancient India, cradle of humanity, hail! Hail, venerable and efficient nurse whom centuries of brutal invasions have not yet buried under the dust of oblivion! hail, father land of faith, of love, of poetry and of science! May we hail a revival of thy past in our Western ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... THE VOICES OF INDIA. Soil of Ancient India, cradle of humanity, hail! Hail, venerable and efficient nurse whom centuries of brutal invasions have not yet buried under the dust of oblivion! hail, father land of faith, of love, of poetry and of science! May we hail a revival of thy past in our Western future! I have dwelt midst the depths of your mysterious forests, seeking to comprehend the language of your lofty nature, and the evening airs that murmured midst the foliage of banyans and tamarinds whispered to my spirit these three magic words: Zeus, Jehova, Brahma. I have inquired of Brahmins and priests under the porches of temples and ancient pagodas; and they have replied: '-To live is to think, to think is to study God, who is all, and is in all." I have listened to the instruction of pundits and sages, and they have said: "To live is to learn, to learn is to examine and to fa'houi in all their perceptible forms the innumerable manifesta. tions of celestial power." I have turned to philosophers and have said to them: "What then are you doing here, stationary, for more than six thousand years, and what is this book that you are Always fumbling on your knees?" And they have smiled in murmuring these words: "To live is to be useful, to live is to be just, and we learn to be useful and just in studying this book of the Vedas, which is the word of eternal wisdom, the principle of principles as revealed to our fathers." I have heard the songs of poets -- and love, beauty, perfumes and flowers, they two have afforded their divine instruction. I have seen fakirs smiling at grief on a bed of thorns and of burning coals. -- Suffering spoke to them of God. I have ascended to the sources of the Ganges, where thousands of Hindoos kneel, at...
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