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The Jaina Philosophy
The wonder is that not with standing these foreign attacks, India and her people have survived; that not with standing the demoralizing influences of foreigners, India still leads in spirituality and morality. Sir T. Munro says :- If a good system of agriculture, unrivalled, manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people - then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import
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Professor Wilson, Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford for many years says, “I have lived both from necessity and choice very much among the Hindus and had opportunities of becoming acquainted with them in a greater variety of situations than those in which they usually come under the observation of Europeans. In the Calcutta Mint, for instance, I was in daily personal communication with a numerous body of artificers, mechanics and labourers and always found amongst them cheerful and unwearied industry, good humored compliance with the will of their superiors and a readiness to make whatever exertions were demanded from them. There was amongst them, no drunkenness no disorderly conduct, no insubordination.” This was before the rivalry for the premium on large reports of the success of Christian Missions in India. What is the state of the low class people now in India under the benign influence of Christian Missions? 'The vice of drunkenness has become common to thein. The Christian Government of India has systemized the vice of drinking and turned it into profit whereas no native ruler had ever raised revenues by liquor. Under the
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