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the world that power, indeed, is the test of truth, but goodness is the highest power in the world. If it is powerful to do it is a hundred times more powerful suffer. Outpourings of cruel savages over the land of Bharata, and civilized'' scourges of the hunian race have been let loose upon the plains of beautiful India over ard over again, but, like meteors coming out af eternal darkness, flashing for a moment across her horizon of view and plunging back into darkness, all these oppressors and tyrants, with all their claims of truth and power to subdue, civilize and christianize, must in the long run, inelt like morning mist on the river and the Hindu will live on, firm in his faith that goodness is the highest power in the world and not oppression.
I concede, my brothers and sisters, thaí in India as elsewhere, men may combine together for wrongdoing, and have done so, but when they did so it was in contravention of the sacred truths, ignorantly interpreted and ignorantly applied, and not in accordance with the dogma of religon nor the inspiration of philosophy or civilization. Under the highest forms of the Christian religion, you will bear me witness, these things also have been done, but do we hold Christianity rightly responsible for the cruelty, injustice and wrong? Some may, but we do not. No more can you hold our philosophy and our religion responsible for abnormal conceptions and prepetrations.
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