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KARMAYOGIN
A WEEKLY REVIEW
OF National Religion, Literature, Science,
Philosophy, &c.,
VOL. I.
21st Falgoon, 1316.
No. 35.
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PASSING THOUGHTS. and needs it bully, or this worm- two persons, Englishman and Indian.
like attitude could not have been Man for man, the vantage here 90 hastily assumed.
lies, he feels, with the Englisbman. Indian Regeneration.
When we compare the great He knows better whnt he want, It is coinmon aurongst inen of al.
cra of Cobden, Bright and CTN in English , and how to most all parties in India tony, to
Gladstone, in English politics, reach it, then the Indian, an In. use the word Regeneration, as if
with the era of the Boer war, the dian. And this he may where their country's need in this respect
Thibetan exprelition and the Latthongh at the same time he mincer were o obvious to require no
bour-question in the Transvaal, it ly feels his own people to be grea. arguing. It may be worth while to
might be suggested that England ter, in every moral, spiritual and punime and ask. Is this really so ?
also required regeneration. But intellectual quality. It so, why and in what respots?
the mysterions term woull evident- The Invention of the Machine. In the first place. India, we are
ly in that case connote & purely spi. Now the sudden introduction of 10 suppose, requires regeneration.
ritual process of self-renewal. It machinery at the end of the righ 1o other countries also require it?
would be equivalent to the excla- teenth century, revolutionised the Does England, for instance require it?
tuation of grent Indian Moderate, western world. Thousands of 10-11 or America, Germany, France In
some years ago, "Oh that the Eng were concentrated into a single the ordinary use of the term, we
land of the Ennncipation of the factory. They lost their individuality think it is assumed that India
slase, the England of the Reform 14 craftsinen and beeme requires the purifying and unerring
Bill, the England of the repeal of mass of unskilled "Inbour." Their process of rebirth in a sense which
the Corn Laws, of the etuancipation consolidated interent.bowever, made England does not share. Is Indir
of the child, the labourer and wo them a force to be reckoned with. thed, in our minds inferior to Eng.
mun, the Englawl of Nu may The single factory became a city of land? Is she more degraded than
ema «μαίος, would return upon factories. Manchester, Shettield, Bir England? Those are points in herself."
mingham, grew up in night by whiel clearness of thought and vi- Oh that she would, indued! The the rush of past from the vil nion are absoluuly necessary. meaning here is perfoctly clear and Inges to become machine-tenders.
Let us prt the question in an unconfused. The name man who Along with their runtie culture, other way, it way which will com. suy this, however, is capable of any. however, these villages throw or mand our instant apprehension, -- ing in the sery next breath. A man also their rustic alleviana Is ruy tnother more degraded for mno, an Englishman is a better zeminder and the clergy. Thry than so-and bo's English Bother? Ruin than an Indian." With these stood in the city poorer than they How are nnyone suggest the ques. premises he cannot be referring to themselves could dream but als then yot the greater includes the their comparative spirituality. It free for the first time of the Pedr. Jew. Evidently no man worthy of is not even probable thnt he is to and the synire. They had to rethu namu would sit quiet, to hear of ferring to intellectual capacity. No. ceive the franchise. Without il. the degrulutin of his country, in his comparison is directed solely to they were too dangerous. The comparisou with that of another the relative strength, aggressivene Corn Laws had to be repeuled in people. Yet India needs something, and prowess of self-protection of the their favour or there would be
