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to perform menial duties. For, if we consider for a moment, we find at once that the organ of secretion is as important for the existence and preservation of the body as its higest and best part which is called head. The reader must have seen that persons who have gone mad, continue to live for scores of years even after their mind has ceased to work, but those, whose organ of secretion has stopped its function of evacuating bowels, cannot live in this world for a long time; they have to bid good-bye to this world immediately. It is, therefore, proved that the body of social organism of a nation can exist, for some time at least, in some form or the other, even when its one limb, the Brahmana caste, has become useless; but it cannot live even for a short time if the socalled shudras and untouchables leave their work or are destroyed altogether. Hence, we come to this conclusion that nobody should be considered as high or low simply on account of his calling or profession. All are great and all fill an important place in the society. All have got a mission and all are indispensable in their respective capacities. Still, if some people call one useful and another useless, they show the ignobleness of their heart and are most ungrateful to their ancestors who constructed this beautiful mansion for the welfare of society. Therefore, it is desirable that nobody should injure the feelings of others by calling others inferior. If you think that to touch them is an insult to you, do not touch them; nobody compells you to do so. The only wish of your ancestors was that you should regard them as men and treat them as such; show your sympathy towards them, or, at least, do not hate them. Just as a foot-stool or a rough duster for feet keeps a carpet clean and dustless, in the same way the shudras or untouchables set off your qualities and
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