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“Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our lifeand happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.”
“Now let us look to the ancient inhabitants of India. With them, first of all, religion was not only one interest by the side of many. It was the all-absorbing interest; it embraced not only worship...”
“Religion is trust, and that trust arose in the beginning from the impressions made on the mind and heart of man by the order and wisdom of nature, and more particularly, by those regularly recurrin...”
“But, for all that, there is a Beyond, and he who has once caught a glance of it, is like a man who has gazed at the sun wherever he looks, everywhere he sees the image of the sun. Speak to him of f...”
“Why do we want to know history? Why does history form a recognized part of our liberal education? Simply because all of us, and every one of us, ought to know how we have come to be what we are, so...”
“The true history of the world must always be the history of the few; and as we measure the Himalaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from the poets of the Veda...”
