(source: Is India Civilized: Essays on Indian Culture - By Sir John Woodroffe p. xiv - 22). When the faggots are stirred the flame leaps. When the Snake is stirred it rears its hood. Through being stirred to action people mostly attain their proper greatness. In writing then of Indian Culture I have in mind not any soiled or hybrid developments of the time, but the principles of the civilization of old India, with its Dharma, Devata and Gomata - a civilization in its depths profound, on its surface a pageant of antique beauty - the civilization of India of the Hindus. In India there has been intellectual and spiritual freedom - the most valuable of all. The history of Europe on the contrary is marked by intolerance and abominable persecutions. If, as is finely said in India, Satyannasti paro dharmah - there is no religion higher than truth. As the Veda says, Truth will conquer. (Satyam jayate).
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