Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...elsewhere is not found. There is still response from them to a spiritual appeal, that no other nation in the world is as yet able to give. Is all that to be wasted? all these to be lost, at the very moment when Indian thought is penetrating the world? Is India herself to be excluded from that great life, that through her is pouring out to the nations of the West? That need not be; that shall not be. If only India's children will do what they should do, by virtue of the past behind them, by virtue of the Gods above them, by virtue of the great Rishis who still live, and who love their ancient fatherland, who even in their high estate turn eyes of tenderest love on India's children, and welcome them with a greater joy than they welcome the children of other lands--then shall India rise. I cannot believe that India has no future, that this greatest of all faiths has no revival possible, which shall place her on the pinnacle where all the world shall worship her, as a mighty power for spirituality. Surely she shall, despite all, be the mother of 7. 1 spiritual races yet unborn. I dream of a time when Temples again shall be centres of spiritual life, when the sacred mantras shall ring out again in all their purifying, harmonising force, when the language of the Devas shall regain its ancient power, when the hearts of men shall bow in worship before the great Gods who rule over mankind, and before the Divine Teachers who are their nearest Priests. Of that I dream, my Brothers. And I know that even if this dream be but a dream--which may the Gods forbid--even then it is good to work for spiritual regeneration. Whether this dream be true or not, no force can be wasted, no change that is for good can be lost. Spirituality growing here shall cause...
