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RIŞABHA DEVA are found constantly disregarding the rules of military strategy and sacrificing away their own and their soldiers' lives in sheer madness of impetuosity. Another cause which played no mean part in the disruption of the Aryan Empire was the failure to benefit by experience. The foreign invaders repeatedly gave evidence of their determination to stick at nothing, that is to say, to make no scruples in obtaining the upperhand ; yet were they always treated as if imbued with the spirit of Aryan chivalry, and true military honour!
Will the past glory of the Aryan Culture be ever re-established in this unfortunate land? India may become an equal partner in the British Empire or she may even obtain complete independence, but it seems impossible to think that we shall ever succeed in completely ridding the country of the undesirable things and customs and institutions that have established themselves in our midst. No doubt, Religion is able to accomplish miracles! If the whole world accepts the Teaching of Truth and begins to live up to it, the face of things will be changed at once, as if by a magician's wand! But it is easier said than done.
The Hindus hold that they were the founders of the caste-system; but the account they
