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THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM IN INDIA
start from different points. He is the one and the same centre, and we all seek Him, and none but Him, thongh we go by different roads.
But I said, there was a significance in this. It tells us of the birth of a new civilisation. Another great religious impulse has come to the world, and it rums before another great step forward in the civilisation of the race. It means the birth of a new era; it means the coming of a higher social stage; it means the dawning of a fairer world; it means an onward step in the climbing of humanity towards God; and as every civilisation bears the mark of the spiritual movement which preceded and heralded it, and which surrounds and guides it, therefore we know that the coming civilisation shall not be of the competition of the present but of co-operation and of brotherly love, shall not be based on race antagonisms bnt on race unions, on love between race and race. It knows no outcast, it knows no alien, it knows no stranger; every one is included in its allembracing love; and the civilisation to be born of it shall be the civilisation of Brotherhood, when men shall love each other, and worship under many forms the One, the Indivisible. For the truth is that the Divine Wisdom is like the sun in heaven, and as the sun shines upon every part of the earth, shines down into every man's compomd, no matter how high the walls that he may build round it, for the su is higher than all, so does the Divine Wisdom shine down into every religion; and thongh a man inay build barriers, the sun of Divine Wisdom is
