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tolerance and noble consideration on the subjects already discussed in your hearing. I deem it proper to say that I have learned very much thus far in my Intercourse with you that will serve me well when I come to report to my own people the lessons of America to India. One of those lessons I cannot refrain from mentioning here. It is this: that good and only good must come from a freer and fuller communion, correspondence and reciprocity, not in philosophy only but in the material factors of civillzation, between you and us. I am impelled to predict that we are in the beginning of material, intellectual and spiritual unfoldings aud relationships, in the spirit of brotherly recognition and love, which will do more for our mutual good in one decade than & cycle of sectarian missionary propogandism can accomplish,
The first mistake which I desire to notice is the very cominon one that the Hindus have no history worth considering prior to the Mohammedan invasion which began in ihe early part of the Eighth century of the Christian era, and ended in conquest one hundred and fifty years later. This mistake has been emphasized recently in certain leading magazines of America by some distinguished writers. What is the truth ? The truth is that the history of ancient India is a history, even by the concessions of most eminent European Oriental scholars
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