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"In fact, the condition will be that of theHindu countries. It is only, however, the Brahman who hasshown himself so tenacious of his ideas of separation ; the foreign
peoples he civilized have never fastened these cramping fetters ontheir shoulders, or any rate have long since shaken them off. Inall the States that have made any advance in intellectual culture,
the process has not been checked for a single moment by thosedesperate shifts to which the law-givers of the Aryavarta wereput, in their desire to reconcile the prescriptions of the Code of Manu with the irresistible march of events. In every other place
where there were really any castes at all, they ceased to exist at the moment when the chance of making a fortune, and of be- coming famous by useful discoveries or social talents, becameopen to the whole world, without distinction of origin. But also,
from that same day, the nation that was originally the active,
conquering, and civilizing power began to disappear ; its blood became merged in that of all the tributaries which it had attracted
to its own stream.
The English are the masters of India, and yet their moral hold over their subjects is almost non-existent. They are themselves
influenced in many ways by the local civilization, and cannotsucceed in stamping their ideas on a people that fears its conquerors, but is only physically dominated by them. It keeps its soul erect, and its thoughts apart from theirs. The Hindu race has become a stranger to the race that governs it to-day, and its civilization does not obey the law that gives the battle to the
strong. External forms, kingdoms, and empires have changed,
and will change again ; but the foundations on which they rest, and from which they spring, do not necessarily change with them.
Though Hyderabad, Lahore, and Delhi are no longer capital
cities, Hindu society none the less persists. A moment will come,
in one way or another, when India will again live publicly, as she already does privately, under her own laws ; and, by the
help either of the races actually existing or of a hybrid proceeding
from them, will assume again, in the full sense of the word, a
political personality.
The hazard of war cannot destroy the life of a people. At most,
it suspends its animation for a time, and in some ways shears it of its outward pomp. So long as the blood and institutions of a nation keep to a sufficient degree the impress of the original
race, that nation exists. Whether, as in the case of the Chinese,
its conqueror has, in a purely material sense, greater energy than
itself ; whether, like the Hindu, it is matched, in a long andarduous trial of patience, against a nation, such as the English,
in all points its superior ; in either case the thought of its certain destiny should bring consolation—one day it will be free. Butif, like the Greeks, and the Romans of the later Empire, the people
has been absolutely drained of its original blood, and the qualities
conferred by the blood, then the day of its defeat will be the day
of its death. It has used up the time that heaven granted at its birth, for it has completely changed its race, and with its race
its nature. It is therefore degenerate.
The power that
reigns unchecked is the true spirit of these peoples. According
to the natural law already mentioned, the black race, belonging
as it does to a branch of the human family that is incapable of
civilization, cherishes the deepest feelings of repulsion towards
all the others. Thus we see the negroes of Hayti violently driving
out the whites and forbidding them to enter their territory.
They would like to exclude even the mulattoes ; and they aim at
their extermination.
Passing now to the other division, we see that the Hindus have
in a high degree the feeling of the supernatural, that they are more given to meditation than to action. As their earliest conquests brought them mainly into contact with races organized
along the same lines as themselves, the male principle could not
be sufficiently developed among them. In such an environment
their civilization was not able to advance on the material side
as it had on the intellectual. We may contrast the ancient
Romans, who were naturally materialistic, and only ceased to be
so after a complete fusion with Greeks, Africans, and Orientals
had changed their original nature and given them a totally new
temperament. The internal development of the Greeks resembled
that of the Hindus.
I conclude from such facts as these that every human activity,
moral or intellectual, has its original source in one or other
of these two currents, " male " or " female " ; and only the
races which have one of these elements in abundance (without,
of course, being quite destitute of the other) can reach, in
their social life, a satisfactory stage of culture, and so attain to
civilization.
"
"In fact, the condition will be that of theHindu countries. It is only, however, the Brahman who hasshown himself so tenacious of his ideas of separation ; the foreign
peoples he civilized have never fastened these cramping fetters ontheir shoulders, or any rate have long since shaken them off. Inall the States that have made any advance in intellectual culture,
the process has not been checked for a single moment by thosedesperate shifts to which the law-givers of the Aryavarta wereput, in their desire to reconcile the prescriptions of the Code of Manu with the irresistible march of events. In every other place
where there were really any castes at all, they ceased to exist at the moment when the chance of making a fortune, and of be- coming famous by useful discoveries or social talents, becameopen to the whole world, without distinction of origin. But also,
from that same day, the nation that was originally the active,
conquering, and civilizing power began to disappear ; its blood became merged in that of all the tributaries which it had attracted
to its own stream.
The English are the masters of India, and yet their moral hold over their subjects is almost non-existent. They are themselves
influenced in many ways by the local civilization, and cannotsucceed in stamping their ideas on a people that fears its conquerors, but is only physically dominated by them. It keeps its soul erect, and its thoughts apart from theirs. The Hindu race has become a stranger to the race that governs it to-day, and its civilization does not obey the law that gives the battle to the
strong. External forms, kingdoms, and empires have changed,
and will change again ; but the foundations on which they rest, and from which they spring, do not necessarily change with them.
Though Hyderabad, Lahore, and Delhi are no longer capital
cities, Hindu society none the less persists. A moment will come,
in one way or another, when India will again live publicly, as she already does privately, under her own laws ; and, by the
help either of the races actually existing or of a hybrid proceeding
from them, will assume again, in the full sense of the word, a
political personality.
The hazard of war cannot destroy the life of a people. At most,
it suspends its animation for a time, and in some ways shears it of its outward pomp. So long as the blood and institutions of a nation keep to a sufficient degree the impress of the original
race, that nation exists. Whether, as in the case of the Chinese,
its conqueror has, in a purely material sense, greater energy than
itself ; whether, like the Hindu, it is matched, in a long andarduous trial of patience, against a nation, such as the English,
in all points its superior ; in either case the thought of its certain destiny should bring consolation—one day it will be free. Butif, like the Greeks, and the Romans of the later Empire, the people
has been absolutely drained of its original blood, and the qualities
conferred by the blood, then the day of its defeat will be the day
of its death. It has used up the time that heaven granted at its birth, for it has completely changed its race, and with its race
its nature. It is therefore degenerate.
The power that
reigns unchecked is the true spirit of these peoples. According
to the natural law already mentioned, the black race, belonging
as it does to a branch of the human family that is incapable of
civilization, cherishes the deepest feelings of repulsion towards
all the others. Thus we see the negroes of Hayti violently driving
out the whites and forbidding them to enter their territory.
They would like to exclude even the mulattoes ; and they aim at
their extermination.
Passing now to the other division, we see that the Hindus have
in a high degree the feeling of the supernatural, that they are more given to meditation than to action. As their earliest conquests brought them mainly into contact with races organized
along the same lines as themselves, the male principle could not
be sufficiently developed among them. In such an environment
their civilization was not able to advance on the material side
as it had on the intellectual. We may contrast the ancient
Romans, who were naturally materialistic, and only ceased to be
so after a complete fusion with Greeks, Africans, and Orientals
had changed their original nature and given them a totally new
temperament. The internal development of the Greeks resembled
that of the Hindus.
I conclude from such facts as these that every human activity,
moral or intellectual, has its original source in one or other
of these two currents, " male " or " female " ; and only the
races which have one of these elements in abundance (without,
of course, being quite destitute of the other) can reach, in
their social life, a satisfactory stage of culture, and so attain to
civilization.
"
